Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.” — Meggie Royer Copy Share Image
I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God.… — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
