I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The unconscious does not coo sweet lyrics or unroll immaculate and measured prose, it howls and raves like the shackled and tortured… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64.… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ― Mark Twain” — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
I often wonder, What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing K . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.” — Benjamin Bayani Copy Share Image
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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