True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She told the woman to go to one of the online agent sites that list agents who are looking for new clients,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
