My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
“I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
“How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years.… — Sean Beaudoin Copy Share Image
I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song,… — Lori R. Lopez Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy, psychology, myth There was considerable critical interest in Woolf ’s life and work in this period, fuelled… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting… — John Musker Copy Share Image
“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“It is always easier to edit what has been written than to write what has not been done.” — Cody McLain Copy Share Image
“My reasons for writing had to be my own, divorced from expectation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you. — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that. — Kim Carnes Copy Share Image
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.” — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
