But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college. — Scheana Shay Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.” — Shay Youngblood Copy Share Image
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the… — Jeffrey Klarik Copy Share Image
“Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever? Jump in. Write anyway. The… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter,… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image