When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus… — LIZ Copy Share Image
“It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in… — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The millions or billions of micro decisions that you're going to make, that's what will determine who you are as a writer,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and… — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book.… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll… — Matt Sharp Copy Share Image
It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to… — Toby Lightman Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer.… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song.… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting… — Nora DeLoach Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
