I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression… — Mariela Griffor Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything,… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I like to write without being stoned. I like to have a hit or two and then go punch up the writing.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things,… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
