I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is, in Dr. Tillotson’s writings, an argument against the real presence, which is as concise, and elegant, and strong as any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Life, even in Everworld, wasn't a romance novel. I guess romance writers imagine that being rescued is a big rush, a kind… — K.A. Applegate Copy Share Image
Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
I'm really fortunate that my husband is a freelance writer and does the cooking, the shopping, takes the kids to school and… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it… — Beryl Pfizer Copy Share Image
I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and… — Sam McCandless Copy Share Image
“A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although… — Alex Parks Copy Share Image
“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work… — Will Haygood Copy Share Image
My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image