I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.” — Enkelejd Lamaj Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The things you hesitate to talk about,” Bertha repeated in her husky North Carolina accent, “those are the things you should be… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money,… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot.… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part… — Virpi Hameen-Anttila Copy Share Image
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.” — Arnost Lustig Copy Share Image
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would… — Abby Elliott Copy Share Image
“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
