The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently… There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping… — Gerald Priestland Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No,… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs... because they have the most to… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
There is not enough that I can write about you, but I want to end this page by saying that I really,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville Copy Share Image
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,'… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
“We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up… — A.J. Dalton Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image