To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing. — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
“I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.” — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy,… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With Twitter people oddly feel accountable for what they write. When someone is unkind, the community rallies like you wouldn't believe to… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups,… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
“it is the violent poetry of times, written int he bllod of the youth” — linda mendoza Copy Share Image
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
