I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women. — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“A Christian writer has summed this up well: “The ‘Christian state’ is one that gives no special public privilege to Christian citizens… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“At 6 A.M., I quit email because that's what writers do if they want to get some motherfucking writing done.” — Heather Havrilesky Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting… — Eminem Copy Share Image
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
