I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer --… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I was being asked to write with some of the most incredible artists in the world. Meanwhile, I'm not taken seriously enough… — Raye Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.'… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the… — Matthew Jacobs Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Every opportunity I've had to work and act with incredibly talented directors, like Dean Holland was on 'Love,' and the writers and… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm very political. Because I read politics every day, so I'm familiar with the world. I approach the films is I'm trying… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced… — Ed Brubaker Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
