If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable.… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists. — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
If you cant be a pencil to write anyones happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove someones sadness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all.… — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
People were writing stories in the papers about me from what I put on Twitter - there was a lot made of… — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs,… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know… — Ice T Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer,… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your… — Judith Weir Copy Share Image
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
