Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.” — D.E.M. Emrys Copy Share Image
Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen Copy Share Image
“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham Copy Share Image
I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I create my own schedule, so you start out each day and you say, "Okay, from 10 to 11 I'm going to… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I'll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic. — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story. — Alexandre Lacazette Copy Share Image
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. — Eric Church Copy Share Image
95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want. — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present. — Keifer Thompson Copy Share Image
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise. — Emer Kenny Copy Share Image
I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way. — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
