You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes. — Andrew Wommack Copy Share Image
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand… — David Cook Copy Share Image
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
My friend was just at my house for a couple days and she was going through my writing, and she grew silent.… — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.” — George will Copy Share Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.' — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting. — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
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