For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn,… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“But the truth is it’s hard for me to know what I really think about any of the stuff I’ve written. It’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
My first album deals with my anxiety. It wasn't like, to heal my anxiety and by writing an album I'm now healed.… — Visionist Copy Share Image
I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures...… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that.… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“NINA Your life is beautiful. TRIGORIN I see nothing especially lovely about it. [He looks at his watch] Excuse me, I must… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be… — Katie Dippold Copy Share Image
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
![“I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just…” quote by Ted Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/411/ted-nugent-1735_blogs_i-write-incessantly-i-m-very-productive_2938231.jpg)
![“NINA Your life is beautiful. TRIGORIN I see nothing especially lovely about it. [He looks at his watch] Excuse me, I must go at once, and begin writing again. I am in a hurry. [He laughs] You have stepped on my pet corn, as they say, and I am getting excited, and a little cross. Let us discuss…” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bc7/anton-chekhov-298_beautiful-life_nina-your-life-is-beautiful-trigorin-i-s_3033730.jpg)
![“With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4f4/gene-wilder-3914_brooks_with-mel-brooks-only-one-time-and-that-w_602487.jpg)
![“[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.” quote by Mary Wortley Montagu](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5bd/mary-wortley-montagu-6947_country_on-her-political-writings-it-is-i-confes_3140682.png)
