I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth… — Ariel Schrag Copy Share Image
“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often characterized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well. — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails. — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“On Twitter at last, and can't think of a thing to say. Some writer I turned out to be.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
