“You don't need paper to write a letter. You can write letters in your head" -Ruby "What do you mean?" -Virgil "You… — Erin Entrada Kelly Copy Share Image
It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.” — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it's like it's not even a thing because it's always there. Like air. I have… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you… — Michael Nyman Copy Share Image
For a long time, I bought into the idea that if you are a woman who is a storyteller and a lover… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
When you're writing about a relationship, whether it's an interpersonal one or not, it's still about communication and trying to be understood… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world… — Gavriil Stiharul Copy Share Image
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or… — John Wells Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
