“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine,… — Alexina Benavidez Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
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I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not… — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
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When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
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I met him. Him; him who in the midst of my terrible sorrow, fell in love with my madness. Him who was… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted… — Sharif Abdel Kouddous Copy Share Image
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The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
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![“I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters. From that point on, I migrated by the 1950s into anarchism, increasingly emphasizing decentralization. Also, I made the all-important step…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60b/murray-bookchin-2587_anarchism_i-learned-that-trotskyism-were-no-differ_1094904.png)
![“I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.” quote by Massimo Vignelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/massimo-vignelli-13401_bark_i-don-t-think-that-type-should-be-expres_762452.png)
![“I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student I barely passed my exams and I barely bothered about books. It was sports all the time. I started reading and got involved in literature and writing. The few cases I handled gave me…” quote by Khushwant Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/khushwant-singh-9061_book_i-had-lots-of-time-to-read-being-a-lawye_326605.jpg)
![“I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.” quote by Sharif Abdel Kouddous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b60/sharif-abdel-kouddous-63338_courses_i-hated-the-culture-working-in-the-bank_864451.jpg)
