To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots… — Christine Lavin Copy Share Image
I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Writing is private and personal but after I have the idea and I have some of it in place I'll share it… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
My books have been published all over Europe. They read me there, and I want to read them back. I also spend… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make… — Birdy Copy Share Image
If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
