A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are… — Goldie Copy Share Image
I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My… — Aireen Pontillo Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. .… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“If the author shows no tears while writing their tale, neither will the person who reads it.” — P.l.n Copy Share Image
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences. — Aaron Carter Copy Share Image
“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files” — Howard Hopkins Copy Share Image
