Eva [Braun] liked to write cards and letters, she spent a great deal of time on this. She had lovely writing, lovely… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. — John Banville Copy Share Image
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,'… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
[Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous -… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
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I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently… There's only the last page left to write on.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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