A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
When you have so much history with someone you just can't close the book , you have too rip that page out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's… — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible." ("I have… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11… — Gustavo Santaolalla Copy Share Image
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal… — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always,… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV… — Christopher Noxon Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana. — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
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