My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.” — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. — Jonathan Brandis Copy Share Image
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter keep me stunned, My heart stops up at… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image