I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out.… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“At most, he was introducing me to a body of knowledge I could draw from, like the writings of Joseph Campbell or… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,” — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Always write for yourself, writing for others will never work out and will only wear you down faster.” — Hell Richards Copy Share Image
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.” — George Ade Copy Share Image
Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
