“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.” — Rowan K. Lake Jr Copy Share Image
I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put… — Mike D Copy Share Image
When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write. — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Writing is no answer but when you feel deeply there is little else to do.” — James Baker Hall Copy Share Image
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
