The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on… — Liane Balaban Copy Share Image
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . . — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“My object in writing the following pages, was not simply to amuse the Reader, neither was it to gratify my own taste,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“When using the Pomodoro Technique, you: 1. Choose a task (e.g., writing). 2. Set a timer for twenty-five minutes. 3. Work for… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.” — Khaled Talib Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They… — Mark Canton Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“A writer’s silence is the loudest scream; it’s the unwritten chapters of their life that echo in the emptiness of their soul.” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
