It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer… — Edmund Bergler Copy Share Image
I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want… — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Go ahead and write it, your words can be the pixie dust powerful enough to transform human spirits into stars, because I… — Michael Mbuko Copy Share Image
“LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAGE - MALAYALAM. I BORN… — Saravan Maheswer Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“The home is a sacred place where you can communicate with the four elements of the universe: earth, water, air and fire,”… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head. — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book,… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
