... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to… — Fernando Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty… — Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart Copy Share Image
I would like to meet with Drake. I would love to meet him. He's from the city I'm from. I feel we… — D-Pryde Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“Van Houten, I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's… — Nana Visitor Copy Share Image
If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
