Anything that Osgood Perkins writes, you can sign me up!

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic,…

— Jacques Derrida

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything…

— Junot Diaz

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;…

— Tom Wlaschiha

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are…

— Zooey Deschanel

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…

— Edward Said

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott