We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing.… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“All you had to say was, 'I am a writer,' and you became one. You didn't even have to write anything. You… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to.… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated… — John Fullbright Copy Share Image
“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials:… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have… — Scott Caan Copy Share Image
