If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.” — Linda Nelson Copy Share Image
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Clicking on "send" has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down.… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
“We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“No.' It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike… — Steven Lake Copy Share Image
We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved… — Cheryl B. Klein Copy Share Image
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not… — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
