“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
“The written word might as well have been my veins, and ink my blood.” — Ronnell D. Porter Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
I don't write for fame or money, I simply want to share my experiences. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which… — David Cross Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said'[Bill Shawn] pays very well,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image
![“I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said'[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aff/nat-hentoff-1615_bad-mistake_i-told-a-big-investor-in-the-new-yorker_1855550.jpg)
