I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you.… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about. — Douglas McGrath Copy Share Image
I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing. — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up. — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
My advice is that it's easier to write than direct. If you have an interest in writing, write. You might as well… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.” — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered… — Cyrese Covelli Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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