I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I write all my own songs, so if it goes wrong, I don't co-write anything. It's all going to fall on me. — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
“The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student.… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
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