“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.” — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
A'Lelia Walker did not subsidize specific writers, but she provided a place for all kinds of people to gather. She was one… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them;… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer --… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
I'm very political. Because I read politics every day, so I'm familiar with the world. I approach the films is I'm trying… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics. — Vijay Copy Share Image
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.” — Toi Thomas Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
