“From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.” — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things. — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they're the kind of writers who make you feel like, 'I… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
