The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward. — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous. — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible procrastinator but once I'm focused on my writing, the house could be on fire and I wouldn't notice. — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.” — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
“E. L. Doctorow quote that I believe, too: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as… — Paula Treick DeBoard Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like)… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham — Kalyani Rajalingham Copy Share Image
“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.” — Shirley B. Garrett Copy Share Image
It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
