Sometimes, love hurts. The abrasions of love have inspired many a great writer. From Shakespeare to Jane Austen, writers have at some… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
I had co-written one episode of an animated show called Jem and the Holograms. Which at the time I didn't view as… — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“As Gabe continued to speak, he sounded to be a cheerful and intelligent person, two attributes I have commonly found associated with… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me… — J. D. salinger Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write not because I thought writing would bring about change. I simply loved it. Writing, in itself, allowed me… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“I’m only going to say this once: there’s a difference between writing and creating art. Anyone can write, but only a few… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
If I could have the tabloids stop writing as much about me, and still get paid the same amount that I do,… — Tulisa Copy Share Image
The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
I don't think it's something that people would ask a man. Some people make a huge deal out of the fact that… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
