In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you’ll ever… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
“If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that… — Matthew Friedberger Copy Share Image
I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music...… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart. — Lights Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
“I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
Nobody understands love, the writer admits. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I have been searching for who I am for so long, when I write I found out who I am, I find… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever… — Joe Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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