“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English;… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area.… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a… — David Perry Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't support or unsupport Assange. If the Democrats had the proper defensive devices on their internet, equipment, they wouldn't even allow… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like… — George Mastras Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world... I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image