Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14… — Avi Copy Share Image
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“When writing a story about your life, and the people around you? Don’t let another nigga hold the pen. Period. – Montana.” — Desiree M. Granger Copy Share Image
There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting… — Patricia McKillip Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, growing up during the 1970s, I used to read a lot of horror and science fiction. I… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time,… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be used by God in big ways. I always prayed He would trust me enough to use… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
