Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say. — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what… — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“When an idea suddenly appears I feel compelled to get it on paper and I keep writing until the flame disappears. Love… — Lee Bumbicka Copy Share Image
Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
“I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the inner critic is actually an indispensable element of any writer’s working life; it is the immune system,… — Patricia Costa Viglucci Copy Share Image
There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
CHAPTER 1 Girl who ran My name is Jade for those who dont know, now know. And this is my life story,… — Jade Copy Share Image
Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I know the fastest way for me to get acclaim is to criticize the league. I can do that tomorrow. I come… — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.” — Stephen Fischer Copy Share Image
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
