You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My… — Aireen Pontillo Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“It's true that some commenters and email correspondents challenge writers to examine certain posts, but for the most part, blog readers are… — Audacia Ray Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated… — John Fullbright Copy Share Image
I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials:… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have… — Scott Caan Copy Share Image
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
