A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
When it comes to a show like 'Stath,' I'm not writing it with any intention other than my natural instinct as a… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Etta James takes credit for writing some of the lyrics on 'I'd Rather Go Blind,' which I think are some of the… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“writing consists of having a cool idea, making the trailer and promo art in your head and never write it” — me, a professional Copy Share Image
Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Careful there, Avalanche. I write for a show where we regularly sit around thinking of how we can kill people. You don’t… — Janie Crouch Copy Share Image
I went to the career adviser when I was 16, and tried to explain that I wanted to be a comedian or… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
