There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn,… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image
As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can… — Kerima Polotan Copy Share Image
“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
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Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in… — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects… — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood. — Ned Beatty Copy Share Image
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I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
“Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it… — Judy Penz Sheluk Copy Share Image
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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