“He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.” — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
I am always trying to stick my emotions into people and things with no emotion. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.” — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.” — A.E. Croft Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters,… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image