When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem… — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
“The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“It is sheer hell in this house. I would have to be quite a writer to describe it properly. Anyhow, I sprang… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,'… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, because you won't know who you really are until you see it staring back at you from the page.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I write sometimes when I'm sad, I write sometimes when I'm lonely, I write sometimes when I'm afraid, but most of all… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material. — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.” — Ted BELL Copy Share Image
