I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
Words only write your words if you dont your heart will fall in drop it, dont let it drop leave it all… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
I think that's pretty crucial for it to succeed and be something more than just something you put your kid in front… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
Theres an awkward silence when Eric clears his throat and speaks up. So Jade, tell us about yourself. Its slightly strange but… — Jade Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I was going to rise, do some typing and coffee drinking in the kitchen all day since at that time work, work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I've done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark… — Doris Betts Copy Share Image
I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
![“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, “My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can’t, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not…” quote by Doris Betts](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/760/doris-betts-55041_advice_when-asked-what-should-i-do-if-i-want-to_288214.png)
