Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.” — Jessica Swan Copy Share Image
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional… — David Means Copy Share Image
“This book is written for the professional writer who is making a living, but just barely. It is also for the aspiring… — Mary Moreno Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement… — Jane F. Kotapish Copy Share Image
“Gansey looked at the handwritten ticket for the pizza in his hand. According to the bubbly writing, their waitress’s name had been… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just… — James Bay Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written. — Kesha Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements. — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm open to working with writers at some point when the time is right, but right now, I'm sticking to what got… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
