Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin Copy Share Image
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Love with writing began from school days itself and with passage of time my bond with it went on becoming stronger. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“This is your genius: your own profound desire to write. Your love of words and language, your attempt to get to what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
You've got to learn your craft; you've got to do it every day. Find a partner. If you're a writer, you've got… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character. — Annabeth Gish Copy Share Image
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
We are the authors of our lives! We write in pen! We can't erase our mistakes but we can learn from them . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film,… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image