You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Always write for yourself, writing for others will never work out and will only wear you down faster.” — Hell Richards Copy Share Image
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism. — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
“You have to write about yourself before you can write about anything else.” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration … sometimes one or two people do… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“But I suspect the reported number of good novels this year is a result of 9/11 and all the other alarums of… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
