The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.” — Joseph Eastwood Copy Share Image
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“Yes, writing words, words, words. Well you’ve made a rope of words and strangled this business. Hah! But there’s a microphone right… — Norma Desmond Copy Share Image
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's… — Ellen Wittlinger Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image