“Got the story in mind but can not write. Knows the truth of life but can not lie.” — Dev Timsina Copy Share Image
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial... — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist.… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Over the years I've had strong friendships with many priests. As a matter of fact, a group of Christian leaders from the… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be—not seem—outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined—as a… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
I love you I love I love you i miss you I miss you mwah mwah prostrated writer nyahahahhahaha lol — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. — Brian May Copy Share Image
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny. — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
