“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
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“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don't have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind” — Kevin Cowdall Copy Share Image
“I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far." "What… — John Irving (Author Copy Share Image
“Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour my… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
