Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.” — Charles Delmar author of My Cooking Coach and creator of MyCookingCoach.com Copy Share Image
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I have the privilege of knowing Ron Blue. Besides being a highly accomplished writer and speaker, Ron founded a financial estate and… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.” — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“being able to work in a robe and slippers was one of the greatest perks of being a writer.” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Writing about cancer is always a challenge for me because it hits so close to home. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself. — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians. — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
