Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics,… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing! — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried writing with that belief in mind, discovering instead how deep inhales and the release of a strong exhale are furthest… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, — Mikey Welsh Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...” — Belle Whittington Copy Share Image
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
