The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a… — Philippe Garrel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there. — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic:… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got… — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to… — Justin Rutledge Copy Share Image
There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
