I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true. — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting. — Neil Drumming Copy Share Image
People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt.… — Ann Friedman Copy Share Image
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their… — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere. — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
