I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own. — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience.… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I hear you don't write any more," he says... "Not true," I inform him. "You should see the margins of my student… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
“God--if by God the agnostic means precision, clarity, genuine feeling, accuracy--is in the details only when the writer (or speaker, for that… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away.” — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“When you write a book and leave your readers emotional when they're done reading it. Then and only then you have connected… — Jerry Don Nicholes Sr Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
