If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways. — Nick Symmonds Copy Share Image
I read tons of comic books. My favourite is Grant Morrison, a Scottish comic writer. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready.… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“There are thousands of talented writers at work in America, and only a few of them (I think the number might be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear.… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Before twitter, I used to write all this shit down on Post-It notes and leave them around the city. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“I write like I make love: alone in my bathtub, as I let the fantasy overflow and wash over me.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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