“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
“My novels are written in first person so you can feel the emotion of the character.” — Airambooksie Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I want to write pop music, but I don't know how. My taste keeps changing. — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasures of adulthood is saying nothing when you have nothing to say.” — Mary-Claire van Leunen Copy Share Image
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“In his story Sarrasine, Balzac, speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman, writes this sentence: “It was Woman, with her sudden… — Barthes Copy Share Image
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.” — Horace Copy Share Image
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.” — Pamelar Hickinson Copy Share Image
When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word. — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever Copy Share Image
