I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. — Nancy K. Miller Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“WHEN I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL, A MINISTER ASKED if I wanted to write an article for a church newsletter. When he… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what… — Gza Copy Share Image
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
