“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Writer and tequila drinker living in the heart of wine country. It's wine, people, not the ejaculate of Christ. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
New lyric writers have become an asset for me. I gave Naseer Faraz a break in 'Aetbaar' and he was up for… — Rajesh Roshan Copy Share Image
There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting… — Nora DeLoach Copy Share Image
“While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
The book is not completely written until someone else has read it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.” — Lenore Appelhans Copy Share Image
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.” — Lon Grover Copy Share Image
The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free. — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
