I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
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I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
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I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
“An amusing writer of the last century, justly complains of the want of definite words to express, distinctly and unmistakably, the different… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no… — L. Michael White Copy Share Image
We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
To Me, the sky is not filled with stars and planets, It is a endlessly flowing vita, Of letters, and words. The… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
When you approach the second half of your life, you start to unconsciously consider what you're passing on. As a writer, that's… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
I was very aware when when I was writing it that 'The Teaches of Peaches' was a really heavy breakup album. In… — Peaches Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
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