I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.” — K.D. Green Copy Share Image
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.” — Julie Rodelli Copy Share Image
“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell” — Freeman Wills Croft Copy Share Image
Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a… — Michelle Dennis Evans Copy Share Image
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love. — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to… — Lianne La Havas Copy Share Image
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“Who’s your friend writing to?” Kilian asked. “She’s covered both sides of the paper.” I sobel laughed. “You.” “Me?” He touched his… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks! — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Crystal Roby Copy Share Image
I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
