To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own. — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. — Drew Endy Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell me to write your story. Write your own story. If you won’t write it down, it probably isn’t worth writing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But… — Kokane Copy Share Image
“So I am led to one or two choices! Can I write? Will I write if I practice enough? How much should… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better” — Mary Papas Copy Share Image
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time. — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.” — Sinovuyo Nkonki Copy Share Image
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write. — Philip Kan Gotanda Copy Share Image
“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
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