All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage” — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Writers reduce what they write, and readers reduce what they read. The brain itself is made to reduce, replace, emblemize... Verisimilitude is… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, fingers on the computer and write. Ignore the naysayers, the skeptics, the friends, church patrons or family members… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
I feel like there are a lot of artists that you could put together that you love, but it doesn't necessarily mean… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
