I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In terms of whether I use humor to allow me or my readers to come up for air, I don't think I… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work. — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life. — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
