In every writers' room I've been in, the first 15-20 minutes of the day are spent discussing water cooler moments from last… — Sallie Patrick Copy Share Image
“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
“Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she… — Brian Webb Copy Share Image
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That's cool your dutghaer likes to write. My dutghaer wants to be a scientist. She likes to read when she finds books… — Nany Copy Share Image
Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions,… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Academics identified by their peers as stylish writers for other reasons—their intelligence, humor, personal voice, or descriptive power—are invariably sticklers for well-crafted… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The one thing we pride ourselves on the most with writing 'Car Share' is that it's hard to predict what's going to… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I do believe that in the future, not by dismantling what we have here - I helped write that bill - but… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an… — Patti Scialfa Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you, writing the book is easy. The after part will break your back. Not to mention your heart.” — Suzy Soro Copy Share Image
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only… — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
