Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today, — Mikey Welsh Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If I was written off and was not offered any work, I wouldn't care because I have lots of other things to… — Ayesha Takia Copy Share Image
“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it. — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
