“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is… — Henry More Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair.… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
“If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
That's such a big part of film scoring that people don't realize. There's a portion of film scoring that's writing the music,… — John Paesano Copy Share Image
It doesn't service anyone any to say, "This is a terrible violation in any circumstance always," because that robs us of our… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you… — Joel Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this:… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to… — Tobias Jesso Jr Copy Share Image
I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“But what of Lenore, of Lenore’s hair? Here is hair that is clearly within and of itself every color—blond and red and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin… — Istvan Deak Copy Share Image
I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
