Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. — Moby Copy Share Image
Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I was so wrapped up in the whole R&B, soul-pop world, that was all I listened to when I first started writing… — Ruel Copy Share Image
I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We would not - from here - counsel anyone to be guided by influences from without. ... If these come as in… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Coaching is my way of helping aspiring and professional writers get the kind of help and guidance that it took me years… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's… — Regina Taylor Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“When supernatural phenomena do not occur, what is the attitude of the writers of Scripture toward their absence? When there is an… — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
“What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work. — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'.… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
