“Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time… — Isiah from the bible Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
“I'm an empty page, I'm an open book, write Your story on my heart, come on and make Your mark Author of… — Francesca Battistelli Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote ‘Killing Jesus,’ because I think I was directed to write that. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see… — Sadie Calvano Copy Share Image
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.” — Red Red Rover Copy Share Image
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