Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” ― Albert Camus” — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.” — Rob Shepherd Copy Share Image
Never make a promse when your Angry,Happy. or make a descision when your sad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
“A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to,… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Every story you've read, play you've seen, every movie and every television show, every poem you've heard and every song... All came… — DS Kenn Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Im the author of my life..infortunately I'm writing in pen and I can't erase my mistakes... — Maya Copy Share Image
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I am only a fighter, in the form of a writer, in the form of a poet, potency in the mic. — Wale Copy Share Image
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image