You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter Copy Share Image
“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing. — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king. — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
I cant say certain things so I write them down. Thats how I get them out. Now, I do that for myself… — Boy Meets World Copy Share Image
When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life,… — India Arie Copy Share Image
I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever.… — Michael Irvin Copy Share Image
“Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in the Western Lands. Point way out he can start stirring of the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Many theologians believe the Gospel writers include miracle stories in order to prove that Jesus is divine. But miracles are not proof… — R. Alan Streett Copy Share Image
“I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that’s the deepest… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion,… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
