“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer… — Howard Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There are so many elements that make 'Orange' spectacular - the writing, the acting, what we talk about - but we can't… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
“We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
That really was a lot of the appeal of 'Rumours.' The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so.… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words." "Yes, that's right," I agreed. "I've noticed that some authors favor… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go,… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow… — James Autry Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
For me, when you're writing out your problems, you can kind of figure out what you're feeling. Once you know what the… — Coco Gauff Copy Share Image
[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal. — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
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