You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about all my dogs that I know and love and are named after these desserts, and the experiences… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“If you've spent more than an hour plotting a getaway route, you're either a writer or a criminal. Or maybe a cheating… — Peggy Rothschild Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Young Castle called me "Scoop." "Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?" "I might ask the same of you," I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I really didn't like anything the way I liked playing music and writing songs. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. — James Frey Copy Share Image
