I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit,… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the… — A.H. Richardson Copy Share Image
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write,… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. I've written songs that show great… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I can write a song, but can't un-right my wrongs. I guess you live and learn, learn when the love is gone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it. — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
“Jack amused himself by visualising her head creaking open on hinges concealed by her tartan Alice band, and releasing all the furry… — Helen Hodgman Copy Share Image
The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood,… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.” — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated;… — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
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