Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Comic book writers often suggest that women don’t have the same dedication to the noble cause, because their need for love is… — Mike Madrid Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master. — Deon Meyer Copy Share Image
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to… — Lil Nas X Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.'… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to… — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
