“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“To the Scripture writers, hope is the absolute expectation of coming good based on the character of God.” — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“God directly inspired the writers of the New Testament canon and so the words recorded by them in the autographs are God’s… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“HOW TO DRIVE A WRITER CRAZY “1. When he starts to outline a story, immediately give him several stories just like it… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
When I talk to kids, I often tell them, "I'm going to disappoint you someday. I won't be worth my salt as… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
There are all these ways to write. All these ways to make a character funny... And it's been really exciting to feel… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image