The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“I may have written this before, but I may not have written it as well, so I’ll write it again.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing. — Kenny Omega Copy Share Image
“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.” — Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill Copy Share Image
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I am really picky when it comes to writers. I like it when people push me and tell me that my lyrics… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is… — Jason Faris Copy Share Image
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest. — Yisroel Salanter Copy Share Image