I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too… — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter,… — Lari White Copy Share Image
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his… — Norman Lindsay Copy Share Image
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to… — Martin Samuel Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,… — Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland. — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore. — George Michael Copy Share Image
