The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the… — Steve Gilliard Copy Share Image
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing Copy Share Image
I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you… — Cordae Copy Share Image
When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Writing songs about how I feel has always been easy and fun for me, and I think the business side of music… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write history. All it needs is memory. But to write a story you must have the power to dream.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo,… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.” — Ron Parham Copy Share Image
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image