I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself. — Manika Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat,… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to… — Gza Copy Share Image
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . .… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting… — John Callen Copy Share Image
My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“It is sheer hell in this house. I would have to be quite a writer to describe it properly. Anyhow, I sprang… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
