Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much.” — Nurina Izzati Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
My family is number one in my life. I'll blow off writing or just about anything to make sure I take my… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey… — Madelaine Standing Copy Share Image
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“I loved the escape of writing those stories, of imagining lives that were different from my own. I had a ferocious imagination.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image