I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. — Sting Copy Share Image
I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song. — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
“I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
