I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it,… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Anyone who’s spent time below the Mason-Dixon line knows this truth: Southern women are anything but ordinary. Our unique, often unspoken code… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I wish it had been something as sexy as the old Joey Tribbiani, falling-down-an-elevator shaft. But no. It just faded out. I… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I didn't like writing just articles and things. So then I wandered around. I tried my hand at film and television and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.' — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of… — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine.… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them. — Bob Greene Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
