Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Aquarius have a hard time expressing themselves and talking about their problems. But they can through writing, drawing, or music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer.… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through… — Olivia Holt Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Even though I've mostly done movies, TV has developed in such a wonderful way over the past few years in the sense… — Thekla Reuten Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song,… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master. — Deon Meyer Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher and I grew up taking voice lessons since I was 9. I started off writing melodies… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap -… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
