I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays—it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest… — Joe Clifford Faust Copy Share Image
I think more talented writers should get involved in the industry, yes, of course. But that doesn't presuppose that those writers have… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
“What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
