Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre. — Donna McKechnie Copy Share Image
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them. — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
Somebody would say, 'Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, 'Yes, of course,' because… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself, to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.” — Sweara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“ Nebraska will transcend Springsteen, will immortalise him as a writer, because of what it says about civilisation in the range of… — David Burke Copy Share Image
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most… — Sampha Copy Share Image
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“New Rule: The person who sat in my seat on the flight before me and could not finish the People magazine crossword… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place” — Alan Dapre Copy Share Image
