I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen. Yes it is this very… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things,… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.” — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.” — Linda Nelson Copy Share Image
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but… — Thomas Grennan Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Aquarius have a hard time expressing themselves and talking about their problems. But they can through writing, drawing, or music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
