Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.” — John Hughes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period. — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon Copy Share Image
What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If I write songs and I think they sound good, then that's it. That's what I do. I'm not a technical musician,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Sometimes it could be just during the day, when I'm riding in the car or on the plane. I'll hear somebody say… — Tyga Copy Share Image
“If you're writing primarily for one person besides yourself, I'd advise you pay very close attention to that person's opinion (I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
