If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Between my brother and a family of musicians/writers who constantly blasted Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Tom Petty, I was a mutt. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun… — Marin Ireland Copy Share Image
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page.… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Music is the highest art form.I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
My comic timing is completely based on Pu La's literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
