Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for. — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
“To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when… — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write… — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“God does not demand that every man attain to what is theoretically highest and best. It is better to be a good… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm just 'Cage' in Lucha Underground instead of 'Brian Cage' is because DJ, the writer, Chris DeJoseph, we wanted… — Brian Cage Copy Share Image
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from… — Woodrow M. Kroll Copy Share Image
The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It… — Marcel Benabou Copy Share Image
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Those who have followed my writing know that I don't think Wendy Davis has a very good chance of being elected governor… — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are… — Jiah Khan Copy Share Image
I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips Copy Share Image
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
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