Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world” — Irene Fantopoulos Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I m not Shakespeare to write about you. I m not Shelley to sing for u. I m not Picasso to paint… — Babloo Copy Share Image
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to… — Eugenia Vela Copy Share Image
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but… — Marcus Gray Copy Share Image
the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear… — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
Oh, written in the stars. A million miles away. A message to the main..Ooooh. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!” — Laurence Bradbury Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.” — Kate Berridge Copy Share Image
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“That’s some awkward prose right there. Awkward like a Redditor talking to women.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
