“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
“Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently. — Neko Case Copy Share Image
If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
