I'm so very grateful to the readers who put down their hard-earned money to read what I write. They don't have to… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
“depression is stupid and not a thing that makes me a better writer. one time i went a whole year without writing… — Joshua Espinoza Copy Share Image
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We got a Grammy for writing 'No Scrubs.' It contributed to me getting Songwriter of the Year. I was the first woman… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer),… — Helen Brooks Copy Share Image
Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was strangely looking forward to writing about my DUI arrest, only because I've known for four years that I was gonna… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Carrying a small notebook with you always, in your pocket or purse, along with a reliable ballpoint pen will enable you to… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me,… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping… — Jessie James Decker Copy Share Image
You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it.… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, you react to your own work—you like it, you don’t like it, you think it’s interesting or boring—and it is difficult… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility… — Elsa Schiaparelli Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I just wish that I had a part in everything Aaron Sorkin wrote. Sometimes I wish I was a member of an… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image