I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“as he reads the articles he talks about the writers, most of whom he knows from his days as a fighter, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it,… — Tim Kinsella Copy Share Image
When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
“The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
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