I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions. — John Constable Copy Share Image
“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. .… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks.… — Nicole Georges Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat. — Mike White Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.' — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to write something that you will need one all; I work on what will give continuous inspiration, I work… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
“When you’re writing fulltime like I am, writing to pay the bills and keep a roof over your head and food on… — Brian Keene Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would… — Abby Elliott Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I know Ed Sheeran writes with a bunch of fantastic writers, but for me, it's quite difficult to be that honest with… — Passenger Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens,… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero,… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
