The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm. — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care -… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great. — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
