Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of “the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Columbia is ... for people whose genitals still work, dammit. For writers who want to be brave and persevere in the real… — Scott Kenemore Copy Share Image
“Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.” — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The truth is that many of the writers of 'The Simpsons' are deeply in love with numbers, and their ultimate desire is… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a guy who writes for kids, I really don't. I try really hard to write a… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there,… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about,… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When the matrix ceases and questions your existence. We are free, our mental state is the resistance. The difference between bravery and… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
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