Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about? — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do. — Ted Shackelford Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got… — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
“Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic:… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
“I saw myself as a person that wanted to build their own house and was aware that I needed to have all… — Teddy Hayes Copy Share Image
I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm writing a book on anger management. ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO BUY IT OR ELSE! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. — William Safire Copy Share Image
At heart, I am still the guy who loves tinkering with machines and writing code. — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
Who would not be emotional about everything that's been written about me? — Filippo Inzaghi Copy Share Image
“But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?” — Joanna Penn Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is a way to get your feelings and ideas out. It is something everybody is capable of.” — Katherine Powers Copy Share Image
