We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. — David Coleman Copy Share Image
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
“Be Patient. For what was written for you was written by the greatest of writers.” — Islamic Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.” — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens,… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Cultural change is always incremental, so the most important thing for any right-leaning artist, writer, or media mogul is to focus less… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old,… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
