“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears… — Lights Copy Share Image
Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul,… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Every book in here I wrote, Some I'm not too proud of some I wish I could burn, So many pages I… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done… — Sue Gardner Copy Share Image
“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1)… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely. — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that. — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.” — ChristaCarol Jones Copy Share Image
There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.” — Daniel Sean Kaye Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
