Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but… — John Parish Copy Share Image
Artists have been getting ripped off since the beginning of time, probably. But on the other hand, it might be nice to… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“in their times; we need to see more clearly than we do that the spirit of the age in which he grew… — William Oddie Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“But since my intention is to write something useful for anyone who understands it, it seemed more suitable for me to search… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
