I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
“One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I had been a zealous writer of journals my whole life, and beginning my newspaper column gave me a huge sense of… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Writers who don’t produce copy—or leave it so long that they couldn’t possibly produce something good—are giving themselves the perfect excuse for… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record.… — Adele Copy Share Image
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am. Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.” — Michael Berish Copy Share Image
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too. — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
“An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments… — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it,… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
“Books are the safest and greatest mind-altering substances in the world. But be safe; don't read and drive.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image