To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here?… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's… — Aliya Whiteley Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I want to write more but I cannot. I am a little weary and the silence in my soul is black. I… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you want to successfully write to market, you need the right tropes, and you need to employ them like a master.… — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien… — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin'… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
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