I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
“What I love most about being a writer is the opportunity to "play Goddess" by creating happy endings for people I care… — Laura Abbot Copy Share Image
I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby… There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You don't need special traits, special genes, or special motivation to write a lot. You don't need to want to write--people rarely… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Out of hundreds of deals that I've done, hundreds, on four occasions I've taken advantage of the laws of this country, like… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it.… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
