Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind. — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. — Moliere Copy Share Image
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
That's kind of my job in the writer's room. I'm always the guy going, like, 'People wouldn't say that there. They wouldn't… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
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