I started writing things because I don't have anyone to share with or it's hard for me to speak, But the best… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write… — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream… — Wendy Rose Copy Share Image
I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“It is always good – is it not? – when all that hard work of writing pages is turned into a solid… — Ann Swinfen Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a… — Darrelle Revis Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path.… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image