Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it. — Lights Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country.… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
“Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind —… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange,… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
