Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“You can have the finest pen, typewriter, or computer, but without a set of eyes that truly see the world, you might… — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Remember that you’re looking for the author’s ideas. Begin by stating in rough fashion what you think the writer is talking about—that… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do… — Lars Saabye Christensen Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Everyday is a page mind what you write on those page because someone else is gonna read it when you are gone. — Burshal Crizzy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just want to not be bothered by people. Sometimes, if not at all times, you just want people to leave… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm wary of being put in boxes. But at the same time, it's important that I embrace my identity as a writer… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That's what Americans are supposed… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.” — Cornelius D. Jones Copy Share Image
We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
