I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn,… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once… — Steve Jordan Copy Share Image
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you” — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say,… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music. — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My aphorisms have the power to translate my ideas into written words that clearly express my feelings and convictions. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
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