About Quote by Erin McKean

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to…

— Margaret Drabble

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

— Carol Burnett

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue…

— C. S. Forester

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

— Anonymous

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at…

— William T. Vollmann

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

— Elizabeth Edwards

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and…

— Hoda Kotb

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

— Ruskin Bond

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

— Michael Musto

“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write…

— Douglas Wilson