There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting. — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case,… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
When I started to write music, I desperately wanted to relate to people. But when I became famous, I could relate less.… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
“Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.” — Pamela Morris Copy Share Image
“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't… — Bono Copy Share Image
“Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is… — Ronan Bennett Copy Share Image
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul...you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you… — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“... we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up… — Max Winkler Copy Share Image
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
