Burning Quote by Tim Wise

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

— Daya

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my…

— Eminem

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

— Puneet Issar

Sometimes, people write the things they can't say

— Haley James Scott

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it…

— Tom Stoppard

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires

— Todd Barry

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking…

— Richard Ford

“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches…

— Dani Harper

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you.…

— Pusha T

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich