It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting. — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't translate for white readers… Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody and where everything will be a surprise,… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something… — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians. — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
