Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“remember, you were a writer before you ever put pen to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start… — Skeme Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing a love song for a girl is no good...but writing one for a Woman...Now that is something different. — Jasari Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters… — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
To write a song is one thing, to get it to No.1 is another and to have a respected artist cover it… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
