No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else. — Kim Carnes Copy Share Image
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you? — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. — James Bay Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
