The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself… — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
“He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single… — Piroska Rodriguez Copy Share Image
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“When I sit down to write I never brood. I have so many other things to do, with my children and teaching,… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. — Nick Thune Copy Share Image
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years… — Ethan Suplee Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a… — Betty Dravis Copy Share Image
As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and… — Tim Miller Copy Share Image
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe -… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a sanctuary or a refuge for me, any time I'm stressed or anxious or worried I find that… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and… — Jennifer Lanthier Copy Share Image
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as… — Brynn Cartelli Copy Share Image
I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image