“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When… — Danny Brown Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this:… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself,… — Lucas Michael Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down… — Robert Asprin Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
“Receptionist: How do you write women so well? Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.… — Mark Andrus Copy Share Image
Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge.… — Lauren Collins Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature. — Lights Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again.… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image