The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Christ Took Our Punishment 21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
