We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together. September 14, 1911: Writer and teacher… — William H. Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line… — Lance Wubbels Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book… — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“What is love? Writers, philosophers, and even comedians have been pondering this question for a long time.” — Aesha K Shah Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
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