Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. — Horace Copy Share Image
Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world. — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul… — Marcus G Monroe Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would so love to curl up, of course, but… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old… — Jack Huston Copy Share Image
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.” — Michelle C. Hillstrom Copy Share Image
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.” — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
“I doubt if, after all, I’ll ever write anything again worth putting in print.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
