For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've been writing ever since I was a child: I used to give my English teacher extra homework and say, 'What do… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
“On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing feels safe, you know, it's a hard job, but at least you're in your office or wherever you are and there's… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally. — David Cross Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
I started writing, then said I don't know if I want to share all that. I don't know if I want to… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in… — Zak Penn Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.… — Austin Pendleton Copy Share Image
That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires,… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
