Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Writing for enjoyment of expression does not need an audience of more than one.” — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“You don't need paper to write a letter. You can write letters in your head" -Ruby "What do you mean?" -Virgil "You… — Erin Entrada Kelly Copy Share Image
“I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“When I write, all those that we don’t know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
