“Writing is today 's currency for good ideas.” — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker,” said Nora Ephron.” — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“It is the only life I care about—to write, to go out occasionally and ‘lose myself’ looking and hearing and then to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper." — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I’m engaged in the dance of the ages and the search for a song to go with it. Though Templeton’s A Veritable… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of… — Andrea Ashworth Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Taboo' just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
