The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“To the Scripture writers, hope is the absolute expectation of coming good based on the character of God.” — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
“Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
There are all these ways to write. All these ways to make a character funny... And it's been really exciting to feel… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I definitely still like writing one-liners, but I also think that I've changed a lot in that I've allowed myself freedom to… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
