In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.” — Ron Parham Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong; But for when I leave this… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Gaiman wrote the first draft in fountain pen, in several five-hundred-page, leather-bound sketchbooks that he purchased in a close-out sale. "I really… — Hank Wagner Copy Share Image
As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of… — James Risen Copy Share Image
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I just Express out my Feelings on a piece of paper... And people says, I am a Writer — Shashank Rayal Copy Share Image
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image