For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have… — Glenn Ficarra Copy Share Image
There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters… Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore,… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process.… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman? — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
