Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my… — Dan Pagis Copy Share Image
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant:… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation… — Pinckney Benedict Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
