The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. — Luca Toni Copy Share Image
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.” — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them. — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time… — Isiah from the bible Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing.… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
The process for writing a picture book is completely different from the process of writing a chapter book or novel. For one… — Sarah Weeks Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“Soon after my husband and I started living together, he learned to make noise before coming into my writing space. He learned… — Marcia Golub Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share Image
