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I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels… — Leon Bridges Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I can really step into my calling and write my own story and be of service to other people in the process… — Darren Waller Copy Share Image
If I have a strong dislike for something, obviously that garners an equal amount of derision, towards me from the audience. And… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I had writers block for months afterwards because I was just so taken aback by all of the sounds I was hearing.… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising… — David Farland Copy Share Image
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader.… — Wayne Allen Sallee Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie. — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
After Frank I didn't write for 18 months but when I met Mark (Ronson) I pretty much wrote the album in six… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
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