Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“The kind of writers I hate the most are those that are completely bereft of distinguishing colors,and so gladly troop out with… — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new… — Lou Gramm Copy Share Image
A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
We are not entitled to such licence, I mean that of affirming what we please; we make the Holy Scriptures the rule… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I've learned not turning things up to full volume is a good idea. Also, because I have the freedom, sometimes when I'm… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will… — Tom Crabtree Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, "Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show,… — John August Copy Share Image
I somehow managed to find my way without even paying attention. I stood in the center looking at the trees surrounding it.… — Jade Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating… — James Frey Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Erin’s throat closed up a little. “We slept together after knowing each other for three hours,” she whispered. “Why are you whispering?… — Jenny Lyn Copy Share Image
Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary:… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
![“Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, "Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show, I can take it over and run it," and I was like, "Yes!" He's always been so busy that I never dared to ask that, but it just worked out, time wise, that this was the season where we could…” quote by John August](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/john-august-24608_asks_josh-friedman-and-i-have-been-friends-fo_1478978.jpg)
![“I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.” quote by Khushwant Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/khushwant-singh-9061_anger_i-use-vulgar-language-in-my-writing-or-f_1757490.jpg)
