I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code. — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Trick it,' the inspiration for this song came out of nowhere! The song is about the little white… — Dahyun Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of… — Helen Slater Copy Share Image
Yashraj liked my writing style, and they had a concept in mind, so they hired me to write. That's how 'Luv Ka… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me. — Santino Fontana Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work,… — Dan Barden Copy Share Image
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Touring has been a new part of my life in a lot of ways. We've just been touring massively since the record… — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
One thing you learn from comedy writing, or sketch writing, is just to be vicious about cutting. Do not get sentimental about… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write… — Baby Halder Copy Share Image
And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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