O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know… — Moby Copy Share Image
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English… — Peaches Geldof Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
“The respected New Yorker staff writer George Packer captured this fear well in an essay about why he does not tweet: “Twitter… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day. These are practical, physical lessons. How much can I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Shaheed' was the first film to win three National Awards. I was the first writer to get the award for story writing. — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose… — R. Rose Copy Share Image
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and -… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I think writing the first album, it just felt so spontaneous. I was 17 years old learning how to write songs for… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to… — Ferenc Molnar Copy Share Image
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say?… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk,… — Brandi Bates Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
