“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and… — Jessie James Decker Copy Share Image
I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to… — Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza Copy Share Image
“Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit. Who cares what people think? If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality. I couldn't… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island,… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.' — Don Felder Copy Share Image
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I only need to write about 3,000 one-liners a day to produce a million jokes a year. Simple. I’ll just get started… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
