“So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make,… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“Your story must told. Live a life legacy- written book or notes. This will be there for many generations to know your… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me,… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what’s the use of writing in order to say exactly what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If our writing is full of grammar and punctuation errors, even though the content may be great, it’s like wearing a beautifully… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they're under my roof, they're going to… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see,… — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Your moustache,” I continue. “It’s kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It’s part of me. I don’t know who… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Do you know how you can tell a professional writer from an amateur?" "No." "An amateur worries about the work before starting.… — Avi Copy Share Image
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“ Not being sure of things , he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me. — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
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