I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my… — Jackson Harris Copy Share Image
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce… — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
The Christians and the Jews do not believe that the Bible is the verbatim words of God. In fact it is clear… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
“Thees and thous taunted her, but like a child, she ignored the writing and focused on the pretty pictures.” — Kimberly Spencer Copy Share Image
“I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ground in how to look… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much… — Richard B. Woodward Copy Share Image
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list,… — Jacqueline Briskin Copy Share Image
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song… — Bon Scott Copy Share Image
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than… — Jimmy Demaret Copy Share Image
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image