“If my ex-husband had had his way, I would have quit writing and continued working in his factory.” — Nele Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“I love you because someday, you will write your story…and it will be amazing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing something down that I'm struggling with makes it feel less scary or more manageable. — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Being part of the TV industry for so long, I have met and learned a lot from some exceptional women, be it… — Jennifer Winget Copy Share Image
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green 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
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
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
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
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number. — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.” — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. — David Cross Copy Share Image
“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.” — Patrick White Copy Share Image