As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am. — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I just write from my own experience and they're very real. They're all the things that I've been through, all situations I've… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing,… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much… — Joe Frank Copy Share Image
