All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through… — Michelle Branch Copy Share Image
I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people… — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
I'd like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn't catch on… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro,… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Experience shows that if a sufficiently deep level--not necessarily the deepest level but one that corresponds to what the yogis call savikalpa… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Writing is like wrestling; you are wrestling with ideas and with the story. There is a lot of energy required. At the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
