But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run… — Roger Eschbacher Copy Share Image
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book. I hate when life gets in the way… — Carrie Olguin Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I would go to the studio and then I'd go back on tour and then I would come off and go on.… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
One thing I'll say about Hitler that many people don't realize - and I don't mean to besmirch the industry - but… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since… — Edward J. Ruppelt Copy Share Image
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author… — Russell M. Goldfarb Copy Share Image
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I… — James Payn Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Some men are born to be good some born to be bad As for me I only came with just a pen… — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about. — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know” — Patricia Hemphall Copy Share Image
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
