“Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands. The only difference between writing and masturbation is one… — Mark Bell Copy Share Image
“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't think any Writer/Author wrote something to be famous, He just have shared his feelings, What makes him famous is the… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Words are like leaves blowing in the wind, they're hard to hold on to; but once you have it never let go.” — Kris Harte Copy Share Image
What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.” — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
“The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and… — Anne Weale Copy Share Image
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like:… — Mike White Copy Share Image
My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you're a boxer, to become a great boxer, you need to be training all the time, boxing all the time. And… — B-Real Copy Share Image
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it… — Geary Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are… — Buddy Ebsen Copy Share Image
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed… — Avi Copy Share Image
I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in… — Scott Rigell Copy Share Image
