The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.' — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I do loads of pitch writing as well, where you write a pop song and then pitch it to DJs who can… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or… — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Corporate career is like my wife, and writing is my girlfriend. My priority is the first but enjoy doing the second, as… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“You need to love the villain as much as you need to love the hero if you’re going to have a great… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a… — Murray Head Copy Share Image
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
“We didn’t have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS… — Peter A. Cohen Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
My name became a brand and I'd love to say it was the plan from the start. But the only plan was… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“For me it's hard to write about the nice trees and flowers and happy shit. It's a lot easier to write about… — Adam Gontier Copy Share Image
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
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