Human beings Quote by William Saroyan

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

— Paul McCartney

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

— Julianna Baggott

After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still…

— Elmore Leonard

“I live in a world in which 40 men control wealth equal to that of nearly 80 countries, where to maintain their hegemony, countless…

— Cecile Pineda

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have…

— David B. Coe

“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it…

— Russell T. Davies

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're…

— Rebecca Skloot

I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like…

— Jeanette Winterson

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…

— Zadie Smith

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall.…

— Michele Gwynn

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

— Peter Matthiessen