“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.” — Rhonda Fink-Whitman Copy Share Image
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've got all the discipline as an actress, but none whatsoever as a writer. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
“Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I see globalization as a modern-day muse; it not only enables but entitles today's writers to venture outside the boundaries and the… — MHA Menondji Copy Share Image
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“Why Have Formal Documents? First, writing the decisions down is essential. Only when one writes do the gaps appear and the inconsistencies… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you. — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
