“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride Copy Share Image
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“it was better written than 50 Shades of I Can’t Write for Shit.” — Michael Finocchiaro Copy Share Image
I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. — Marc Cherry Copy Share Image
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they… — Catherine D. DeAngelis Copy Share Image
“Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I… — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. — John Donne Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
