The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer.… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Writing is a wonderful voyage of discovery. So sit down and write, and see where your mind can take you...” — Sarah Jane Avory Copy Share Image
“If history, as by most definitions, begins with writing, then the birth, rise and fall of ancient Mesopotamia occupies a full half… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
“Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama.… — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
