What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The NT writers have no need to prove the Trinity; the comings of Christ and the Spirit for our salvation have adequately… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“If your characters write your story, rather than you writing your characters, it's like your dog taking YOU for a walk. Don't… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad’s garage… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
