I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing a song that really meant so much to me, and having it mean a lot to other people, it's been the… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record. — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
“It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because… — Stephen Hagelin Copy Share Image
When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls:… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than writing. There’s nothing better than writing. It’s like the man you hate to love, love to hate and… — Coco J. Ginger Copy Share Image
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“When I write, I bring joy in my readers face In my face, peace and complete happiness But hardly I give any… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
{_ Do not expect me to something different view of writing., What can I do, which is found I in the form… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but… — Jake T. Austin Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don't have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the… — Halsey Copy Share Image
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
