If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission. — Passenger Copy Share Image
I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking. — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. — Jack Dann Copy Share Image
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is. — Sean Stone Copy Share Image
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“I am only an agent of creativity and I write in order to start an argument and not to conclude it.” — John Nkemngong Nkengasong Copy Share Image
