I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Writing books can be a tricky business when you have no fucking idea what you’re doing.” — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
I hope to write someday and thats even more terrifying than performing. You dont just entertain the audience, you give them little… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one. — Judith Rascoe Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
