“The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know… — Moby Copy Share Image
Shaheed' was the first film to win three National Awards. I was the first writer to get the award for story writing. — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to… — Ferenc Molnar Copy Share Image
I think writing the first album, it just felt so spontaneous. I was 17 years old learning how to write songs for… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is… — Jason Faris Copy Share Image
“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and -… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose… — R. Rose Copy Share Image
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted… — Scarface Copy Share Image
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
