I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate,… — Nami Mun Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“Maman had been a gifted writer. Pari has read every word Maman had written in French and every poem she had translated… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
“I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting.… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too! — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day.… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Holly came out with a book and she gave her experience. This is what I told Kendra, 'She's writing about her experience… — Bridget Marquardt Copy Share Image
I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French Copy Share Image
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald,… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the… — Francois Cluzet Copy Share Image
One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
“Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I'm a Sit Down Stand Up Comedian, whatever the hell that is. Maybe a writer with a short attention span and one… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit… — Omarion Copy Share Image
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
