America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter… — Florence King Copy Share Image
What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Though she is all but forgotten today, Alice Kober single-handedly brought the decipherment of Linear B closer to fruition than anyone before… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
There's a real danger in writing or acting as therapy because if you've ever been on-screen with someone or on stage or… — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
With all the innovation in music today it’s rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I don't call myself a writer, much as I'd love to be. An author, maybe - the novel 'Voyage' made $870,000. Writer,… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Each week the writers strived to portray the brothers on a social bandwidth halfway between harmless rednecks and odious white trash. It… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way,… — Rande Gerber Copy Share Image
I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and… — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing. — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
