I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it. — Tammy Wynette Copy Share Image
Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
