“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain. — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to… — Richard Kern Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's… — Tony Joe White Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing,… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song.… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Once I'm writing, I'm very disciplined. There's a certain magic. It's like you're living at a deeper current. It's a very complete… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
