I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many people worked hard in order to create 'Crash Landing on You.' I am grateful to the writer, the directors, and all… — Hyun Bin Copy Share Image
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at… — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.” — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing,… — Mija Copy Share Image
“I had so much fun writing this book. I could hardly wait for morning to come so I could get back to… — Gladys L. Hargis Copy Share Image
I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I always wanted to… — David Leslie Johnson Copy Share Image
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm also always thinking about the score as a recording, as opposed to a performance that can be recreated in a live… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the… — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you. — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.” — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course — Syd Field Copy Share Image
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
![“I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e69/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_broadway_i-can-tell-you-that-in-my-modern-life-i_2199529.png)
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