“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.” — Kayla Rae Whitaker Copy Share Image
Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional,… — Gigi Gorgeous Copy Share Image
The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of… — John Grant Copy Share Image
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing… — Verite Copy Share Image
“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“I envy all authors who command words on paper. I do not. My English is simple, my gramma is flawed, so why… — Mikkel Skipper Copy Share Image
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.” — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image