“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.” — Jim Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a paperweight, for people whose writing isn’t as dense or weighty as mine. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it. — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction,… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed… — Mardra Sikora Copy Share Image
I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. — David Frum Copy Share Image
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.” — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
I know I'm born to be a writer and a musician - that's what I love and am supposed to do. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
