Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
As a song writer when I first was aware of the Beatles and started, you couldn't avoid hearing it, not that I,… — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really… — Tom Verica Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres. — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to… — Colton Dunn Copy Share Image
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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