“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.” — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to… — Roger Miller Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspired mood; the plane has to… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I… — Tony Gaskins Jr Copy Share Image
Overall, I just love performing so much that when I write, I want to write for me. I kind of learned that… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers,… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“Bleecker Street, Summer" Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it isn’t up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... . he isn't like this writer or actor or comedian... - YOU FUCKING LIAR.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record. — Dave Lombardo Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
