Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I love reading beautiful stories. I love poems and yes, I fantasize about someone writing beautiful lines for me. — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.” — Danielle Ackley-McPhail Copy Share Image
I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything,… — damali ayo Copy Share Image
The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the part of you… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would… — John Zelazny Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels… — Ryan Eggold Copy Share Image
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez Copy Share Image
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene. — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint -… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The “facts” about Ali’s life are few, and come from Wallace’s writing. Wallace was a careful writer, but he naturally wrote through… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up… — David Means Copy Share Image
Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Look Im just a writer from the ghetto like Malory Blackman. Where the hells full the sanity you got, damn. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could… — Joseph Harold Bunting Copy Share Image
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
And I could see the writing on the wall. Evidence of little hands Picasso with a purple crayon and I tried to… — Mark Harris Copy Share Image
While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make… — Brenton Brown Copy Share Image
I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Its not the fear of writing that blocks people, its fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
