In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“La dernière chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la première. ( The last thing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year,… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
“I think of writing as a partnership with the reader. My goal is to feed their imagination, but only partially. If you… — S.J. Pierce Copy Share Image
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them. — Jorge Semprun Copy Share Image
“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“This brief transcript of moments, written in the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.” — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me. — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
