Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. — John Clare Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
There are all these ways to write. All these ways to make a character funny... And it's been really exciting to feel… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree… — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
