I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.” — Shawna Morey Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours,… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get'… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how… — Tink Copy Share Image
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
