Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. — Horace Copy Share Image
“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well… — John Heath-Stubbs Copy Share Image
Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled,… — Frances White Copy Share Image
I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I'm the one you love to love and love to hate. I make you laugh, cry & cringe. You'll… — Eveli Acosta Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.” — Christina Cooke Copy Share Image
During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
“No matter how simple the furnishings are, you can always tell a write by his home.” — Rafeal Alberti Copy Share Image
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing,… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
![“I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at…” quote by Gerard Way](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/201/gerard-way-1061_different_i-was-talking-to-cecil-castellucci-who-w_3129827.jpg)