When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
“...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses. Without their hard work… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Monsoon Love is a love story with a few comic twists. The idea for this story came to me when I went… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
A lot of people, be it writers, filmmakers, actors or technicians, are getting opportunities because of digital platforms. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“And as for writing my poetry, he claimed the toil of it was too much strain. Toil? Writing is my life. It… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
![“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc3/salman-rushdie-153_advice_what-rushdie-took-away-from-reading-gunt_740546.jpg)
