I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
“If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I wanted a new phase in my life I needed something new. I stepped back, started doing song writing and various business… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time.… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Don't bury personal obsessions. Capitalize on them. ''The connection between personal obsession and the work you do is the most important thing.''… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Let us define our terms. A woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac, she is simply… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
“PREFACE This is a book about writing as a spiritual practice. This is not a book about spiritual writing. Spiritual writing—inspirational writing—has… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
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I've been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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