And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in. — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them. — John Prine Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
But I'll never write another Missing You' again as long as I live. I hope that I'll write a good song, but… — John Waite Copy Share Image
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Speaking to you is like writing in the sand. My words and thoughts just wash away when the tide rises.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love. — Simon Taylor-Davis Copy Share Image
I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“On some days, writing is wonderful. On the days when it is wonderful, it feels like you are the God of a… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality… — Zoë Brigley (Thompson Copy Share Image
