Order Quote by Sara Genn

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

— Faith Ringgold

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

“It is better to write in order to find what you are than to write to find what price others put on you!”

— Daniel Kemp

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and…

— John Patrick Shanley

You have to stop living in order to write.

— Martha Gellhorn

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

— John Prine

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s…

— Stephen King

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

— Erin Morgenstern

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

— Richard Attenborough

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it,”

— Stephen King