“How alive was her writing though, how full of force. Those curious, sloping letters.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“I think I couldn’t love him at all if he was the sort of man to make me choose between him and… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime. — Lady Sovereign Copy Share Image
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ". — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you work as hard as you can on something, and still the cake does not rise. Sometimes the cake is better… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think,… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To cut writers and expect A.I. to understand what it's like to be a plus-sized Black woman from New Jersey living her… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually. — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.” — David Patneaude Copy Share Image
I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing. — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. — Eugen Weber Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
