I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to… — Eliza Doolittle Copy Share Image
“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or… — Marvin Brown Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
