There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing. — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.” — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course — Syd Field Copy Share Image
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.” — Suzanne Valtsioti Copy Share Image
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other,… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting… — Sue Isle Copy Share Image
Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.” — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.” — John Patrick Lowrie Copy Share Image
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing. — Miguel Ferrer 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
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.” — Phillip Athans Copy Share Image