I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“The feet and their tapping Write many a lovely couplet The body dances to your rhythm O lord After all, you are… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue?… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I wish I could write solely from imagination, but then I would not have a story to write. I need to produce… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon Copy Share Image
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the… — Dan Piraro Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I believe whole-heartedly that anything you are passionate about, you can turn into a career benefit if you are a writer. — DaniAlla Copy Share Image
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
