If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's… — John Edward Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's… — Tracy Pollan Copy Share Image
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which… — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart... — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in… — Joe Locke Copy Share Image
I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams] — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.” — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image