Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write… — Paul McDonald Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next… — Ernest Grant Copy Share Image
To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally.” — Rafael Reig Copy Share Image
If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of… — Dudley Clendinen Copy Share Image
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image