Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.” Maltbie D. Babcock (1858–1901) WRITER… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
“In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64.… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind,… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of… — Warren Leight Copy Share Image
I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with… — Fitzhugh Dodson Copy Share Image
I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. — Avi Copy Share Image
“There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.” — Susan Elaine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“The writer Elizabeth Stone says that having a child is like deciding to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at… — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck. — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
“When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write. But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
