The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“So much of what we talked of can never be written. It was born and grew and developed but not visibly. There… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“problems, your challenges, your obstacles, your goals, and your ideas in writing. Make small lists such as a: To-do list. Everything you… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil.… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“2 am and I'm still awake writing a song if I get it all down I'll be where it's no longer inside… — Anna Nalick Copy Share Image
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“Did you like my novel?" she couldn't resist asking. "Yes, I did. At first I thought it would be typical silver-fork fare.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Half the time I have no idea what I'm doing. The other half, I'm trying to undo what I did when I… — Suki Michelle Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it: suffering discredits goodness. I’m agnostic in practice though faith-based in theory. I used to pray but now know he’ll… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother,… — Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor Copy Share Image
Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“My model, such as it is, is a mentorship model, which is to say that I care personally, and I involve myself… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the… — John Backus Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
