When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t… — Harvey Kuenn Copy Share Image
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The writer's craft, explained! I have stood on the shores of imagination, gazing at a sea of dreams. It is a lonely… — Barry Woodham Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Support all singers, musicians, photographers, dancers, painters, poets and writers. We don't fight wars. We spread love in the world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style.… — Kano Copy Share Image
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," I said. "It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“My bubble that I love to live in Suffice me, But to write... It'll either burst or... Demand blowing... If I choose… — Tehreem Rahat Copy Share Image
It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Luckily, with 'Insecure,' we have really great writers who get it and work hard to give Kelli layers for me to explore… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
When you're, like, writing a Python script, it doesn't feel like you're doing something to someone. You just don't think, 'How could… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom… — James Frey Copy Share Image
