A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. — Drake Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however...that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Part of our job is to dig deep and rediscover the joy that we had when we were first starting out. Also,… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
