Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I'm doing interviews and there are pictures of my face, so it's not like I'm hiding who I am. As soon as… — SOHN Copy Share Image
“This year, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm Copy Share Image
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ” — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A stickler hallmark is that those who speak or write differently can’t be merely wrong; they must be depraved, too.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image