Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae” — K.D. Faerydae Copy Share Image
“A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must… — Dee Doanes Copy Share Image
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music. — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
“humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to… — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.” — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time” — Debbie Behan Copy Share Image
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing. — Jeon Yeo-been Copy Share Image
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz Copy Share Image
If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy. — John Caples Copy Share Image
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
“Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...” — Belle Whittington Copy Share Image
“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
