“Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?” — J.E. Seanachaí Copy Share Image
Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement,… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go,… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise,… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult. — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer. — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
