“It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in… — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus… — LIZ Copy Share Image
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore. — George Michael Copy Share Image
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland. — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,… — Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
