As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Mostafa A Copy Share Image
All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world. — Ron White Copy Share Image
“It's not often you find someone who is a good friend and good writer, Charlotte was both.” — E Copy Share Image
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I can't believe how many students don't read. They want to be writers, but they haven't read anything at all. They have… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“...the job of the spiritual memoirist is to read the world like a book. Medieval monks believed the natural world was a… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.” — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“The best way to write is to let the words breathe onto the page from the soul.” — Mary Krome Copy Share Image
“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.” — Dan Kennedy Copy Share Image
For me, writing the 'X-Men' was easy - is easy. I know these people, they're my friends. — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.” — Avery Breyer Copy Share Image
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
