If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Descriptive writing is more than visual; it employs all the senses.” — Cheryl St.John Copy Share Image
“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.” — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
“Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English.… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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