“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
This will be the last cut. After this, there will be no more. There will be a lot of things I will… — Leslie Copy Share Image
And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down. — Elton John Copy Share Image
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy,… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
BoJack especially is a very dialogue based show. A lot of the comedy comes from conversations, and a lot of story comes… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies,… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, actually. And when I say I'm a songwriter, I'm saying I can write songs for more than just myself. — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Love love being an 80s baby...life before mobiles and the internet...hand writing letters and listening to some great music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Some people are mean, and when you look at their page, they only write mean things, but I have a great time… — Kathleen Madigan Copy Share Image
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.” — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like -… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
