When you have writers who recognize they're making a wrong turn and correct it, I knew I was in good hands. — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also.” — Ashley Chunell Copy Share Image
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I am a writer…a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never… — Ey Wade Copy Share Image
A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I often say 'I didn't write the script, but I'm learning to live it out with the best of my ability for… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“Writing...is the best, the only way I know to investigate myself, to figure out what I think and how I feel and… — Katrina Kennison Copy Share Image
“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge." -"If you knew how little you had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls — William Styron Copy Share Image
If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented...… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
“Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
“I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or… — Kathryn Albright Copy Share Image
I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
