There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.” — S.M. Blooding Copy Share Image
“Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?” — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams” — Rob Shepherd Copy Share Image
“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.” — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you don’t want to be forgotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing”. – Benjamin Franklin” — Rishi Kumar Copy Share Image
My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
I tried to write backwards so I could take a picture of it and the word not be backwards in the picture… — Cassandra Crosby Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“I may not write new wisdoms nor new ideas. I write things which are about to happen in the future, things which… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens.… — James Wan Copy Share Image
“The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young). — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.” — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about. — Cecil Murphey Copy Share Image