The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Before the printed word Storytellers would sit amount the listeners to hear their comments and banter. The internet is bringing that time… — Jessica Reeves Copy Share Image
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm just giving, and giving to people who aren't always deserving. But I've learned to listen and approach people without judgment.… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer,… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the… — Benedict Samuel Copy Share Image
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I write to teach myself, explore myself, inspire myself (in which I always fail), analyze myself, clear myself (in how much deep… — Ovais Khalid Copy Share Image
When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
“I have no interest in looking at all of that shit written down. I would rather have a root canal. In 1705.” — Kara Lee Corthron Copy Share Image
It took me two years to write 'Fallingwater,' but it's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, and it was worth… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
