If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
“Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It… — Marcel Benabou Copy Share Image
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an… — Lorde Copy Share Image
The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from… — Woodrow M. Kroll Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are… — Jiah Khan Copy Share Image
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional,… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
“So, Mr. Nick,' murmured the valet, applying shaving soap to his employer's face with an ivory-handled brush, 'are you writing a book?'… — Albert E. Cowdrey Copy Share Image
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the… — Mark Frauenfelder Copy Share Image
When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...” — Té Russ Copy Share Image
I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level. — Drake Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script writer takes over. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
