“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write. — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week.… — Patrick Labyorteaux Copy Share Image
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read… — Hannah Cowley Copy Share Image
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life. — Thomas Ian Nicholas Copy Share Image
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
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