Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I am the same man writing the music. I haven't changed directions to suit anyone except me. — John Waite Copy Share Image
I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Nothing to Say, Nothing to Write, Nothing to Send, But I Believe that... You Will Listen ,Read ,n Receive My Feelings in… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school… — Avi Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
When I talk to Ryan Murphy or Ali Adler about my past or things in my personal life, occasionally pieces of that… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the… — Sia Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out. — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
“This story was not written for people who do not know what I'm talking about.” — Christopher Higgs Copy Share Image
“My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts. — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
