The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. — Luca Toni Copy Share Image
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check.… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
I do question a band's longevity, because most of my favorite bands only made one or two good albums. After that, I… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Some people talk of writer's block - you got all of these ideas but nothing happens. The truth is, there's no such… — Jon Fratelli Copy Share Image
No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, their background, or their religion. People must learn… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.” — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job. — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“It has ever been my delight to learn or to teach or to write.” — Bede the Venerable Copy Share Image
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