Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Girls is a fine example of someone writing what she knows and the painful limitations of doing so.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild. — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague. — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
What I enjoy most are those times when I get an idea and it just flows - the words coming so fast… — Leah Cypess Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
