How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs. — Frank Harte Copy Share Image
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
“And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA. — Joshua Ostrander Copy Share Image
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.” — Joan G. Robinson Copy Share Image
“... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic.” — Jonathan Oliver Copy Share Image
“He sometimes keeps Her off of the sky, But then She teaches Him how to fly.” — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. — George Murray Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other. — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
