As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted experiences from Cape Town to right up in northern Mozambique. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
You have to remember that Shadow and Bone' was the first book I sold. And it was, in fact, the first book… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued… — John Aldridge Copy Share Image
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift… — Tionne Watkins Copy Share Image
“The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a… — Hana Wirth-Nesher Copy Share Image
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
