“It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.” — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Per Brinch Hansen Copy Share Image
Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean. — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.” — Shawna Morey Copy Share Image
I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The songwriting community in Nashville really is all about your talent. It's not about your image, and you have to be humble.… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“You, the reader, make the book, but the book does not in itself exist between these decomposing covers. You read the script,… — Jason Henderson Copy Share Image
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“My reasons for writing had to be my own, divorced from expectation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“It is always easier to edit what has been written than to write what has not been done.” — Cody McLain Copy Share Image
I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you. — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
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