I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one. It… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I write for a purpose. I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
“We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Love paints the heart so delicate; so why would my words ever borrow the ink of their own demise?” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed… — Avi Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
