I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have been searching for who I am for so long, when I write I found out who I am, I find… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Nobody understands love, the writer admits. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I remember when I started writing lyrics, I was very grand. I tried to use a lot of symbols,because I thought that's… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
“The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most… — Chris Godsen Copy Share Image
Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
“I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart. — Lights Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the… — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all… — Frances Beinecke Copy Share Image
I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
“These stories are my weapon. If I can write a book that grips someone by the heart and then opens their eyes… — Eric N. Bentley Copy Share Image
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
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