Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people. — Kyle Copy Share Image
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly. — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
“There are Christian fiction writers and then there are Christians who write fiction. There is Christian fiction, then there is what some… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an… — David Rabe Copy Share Image
Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. — Feist Copy Share Image
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
I'm known for being quite gobby, but also, I'm quite old fashioned in the sense that I like writing letters. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents'… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse. — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I've always been a very emotional person and as a child. I guess writing felt like something that I could do in… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come… — John Rechy Copy Share Image
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
