My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great… — Joel Klein Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian… — William Jackson Harper Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“as he reads the articles he talks about the writers, most of whom he knows from his days as a fighter, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing. — Josh Flitter Copy Share Image
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion; with your mind and with your heart. Never forget who you are writing for, but don’t write just… — Monty Marsden Copy Share Image
