I've been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want… — John Fante Copy Share Image
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till… — John Donne Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart)… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Im not Shakespeare to write about U, I Am Not Shelley To Sing About U, I Am Not Piccasso To Paint u,… — Kaceem Madridista Copy Share Image
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And… — David Suchet Copy Share Image