Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up. — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print. — Ashley Scott Copy Share Image
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
