I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
What's the best way to ensure a supply of good books in the future? Support up-and-coming writers now. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan Copy Share Image
“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.” — Joseph Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away. — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them. Including killing a whole… — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work,… — Dan Barden Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by… — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I'm bullish on writing. Movies, radio, television, and now digital media - everything was supposed to push us away from text, to… — Tim Carmody Copy Share Image
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.” — Lettie Prell Copy Share Image
“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!” — Tony Jones Copy Share Image
Why do I always write about love when it seems like love has written me off? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. — Dianna Daniels Booher Copy Share Image
“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
