I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible. — Kesha Copy Share Image
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
People wanted to know where I was and what I was doing. Was I still recording? Was I touring? Was I putting… — John Waite Copy Share Image
I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner Copy Share Image
I write back to every fan who writes me, which is kind of a full-time job in some regards 'cause I don't… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When I got clean and sober, it was like I was a kid again. Not to sound corny, I felt like I… — Eminem Copy Share Image
When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image