Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that,… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They… — Rodrigo Rey Rosa Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
When you're writing in first person, like I do, you can't give a fluffy version of someone's thoughts because even the most… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“A master piece with a use of fullness !!! Artist & writer / designer .Best Selling rated book selected at worldwide publisher.inc… — Andre Pace Copy Share Image
Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
