I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
One major difference I observe between professional and amateur writers is that pros can take constructive criticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people… — Letitia Wright Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest… — Joe Clifford Faust Copy Share Image
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
