Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
“...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and… — Mark Dintenfass Copy Share Image
Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
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“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Compassion is the belief that things might improve, and even when there's little, if anything, to sustain and engender that belief. It's… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
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