I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human.” — Foster Laverne Harding Copy Share Image
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings),… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life don't hesitate taking any serious decisions as it is only one end and it is… — Mahmoud Emam Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ... ... and drinking coffee.” — Linda Ghaderi Copy Share Image
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into… — Shannen Wrass Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image