There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The big insight that I have, not so much from writing 'Red Notice' but from living as the main character of 'Red… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor. — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
“The mind working alone produces thought; the heart produces feeling; the tongue makes speech and the hand in isolation makes scribble: all… — Geoff Hewitt Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“we then busied our souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with… — Brenda Ashworth Barry Copy Share Image
“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips from my heart. All its wounds long scarred… — Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The writers did a great job of adapting the characters from the 'Frozen' story and implementing them into the 'Once Upon a… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
