The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“JEAN Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONEL Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good… — James Kisner Copy Share Image
I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
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I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like… — Ralph Strangis Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
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There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
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