Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“There will always be people better prepared or more talented, but hiking and writing are inefficient activities.” — Karen Ackland Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in… — Zak Penn Copy Share Image
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting… — Patricia McKillip Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, growing up during the 1970s, I used to read a lot of horror and science fiction. I… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time,… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be used by God in big ways. I always prayed He would trust me enough to use… — Kay Robertson Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
I started writing, then said I don't know if I want to share all that. I don't know if I want to… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally. — David Cross Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“some of history’s lessons here with respect to writing should be obvious: make a copy; back up your data; and beware of… — Brian Carroll Copy Share Image
Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
