I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's… — Will Self Copy Share Image
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain...… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through… — Yanni Copy Share Image
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
My husband and I had the opportunity to write some stuff for other people. We both tried it. I think it lasted… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse.… — Robin Lakoff Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
