I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
“She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
! What are you doing here?? And how did you know this was my room?? I was slightly weirded out. I said… — Jade Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for… — Vanessa Wu Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album,… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
