Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk. — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All writing is travel writing, it just depends which direction you are going.” — Eric D. Lehman Copy Share Image
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true. — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“Writers aren’t the most well-adjusted people, and it’s telling that our preferred means of interaction with civilization is throwing paragraph-shaped grenades at… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Hey, you write with a ballpoint pen, and I write with a ballpoint pen ... Let’s make us the Blue Pen Club!… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate… — John Bush Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me.… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“next week we have a bunch of horror writers coming from all over the world. That'll be one whole week, fully catered,… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
