“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.” — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried writing with that belief in mind, discovering instead how deep inhales and the release of a strong exhale are furthest… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I was a writer. I wrote on the show. We were in the writer's room and by about episode five, I started… — Brett Goldstein Copy Share Image
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm just giving, and giving to people who aren't always deserving. But I've learned to listen and approach people without judgment.… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
![“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about…” quote by Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24f/gary-shteyngart-2177_future_there-s-no-present-left-this-is-the-prob_3224050.jpg)
![“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you…” quote by Dave Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c75/dave-eggers-638_writing_you-better-start-writing-now-because-you_3224489.jpg)
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