When you write music that you are very passionate about, being able to bring the visual aspect of it alive with the… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs. — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
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If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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“English is like a poetic extension of myself. It holds my creativity and imagination in blissful and inspiring captivity. Though I consider… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
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The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
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