I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“In other words, the biblical writers were speaking to those who shared a rich cultural context, which shaped the way they communicated.… — Ken Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream… — Missy Elliott Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin were the biggest inspirations for my work because they trod into areas considered to be… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“If we think of grades as an opportunity to shine a light on what we value in the whole of writing and… — Patty McGee Copy Share Image
Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that,… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“If it is in your heart, write it. And if it is in your mind, share it. Someone, somewhere, will be inspired.” — Julia Skyler Copy Share Image
Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“As a Writer, I simply make statements concerning my life, what I have experienced and some of the conclusions I have come… — Ingrid Holm-Garibay Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?' — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
