I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think women need to hear more encouragement in any field, because I see it - I teach creative writing. And even… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“I’d read through the whole thing twice, and I used to go on and on: Marcel, the spectacular writer, my idol, and… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and… — Johnny Rico Copy Share Image
Writing something down and processing it, sitting with a text and a story, editing and rewriting new drafts - that entire process… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Insecurities and missteps can plague writers and artists who come from rural places. We worry that our provincial life experiences won't gain… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less… — Waldo Salt Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't… — Evan Glodell Copy Share Image