Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Right? Or is writing like everything else in my life where I don't quite measure up? Loved, but not quite the Gabrielle… — Stephanie Morrill Copy Share Image
In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas'… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Obviously, growing up in France, I had foie gras probably when I was two years old. Writing about it and understanding what's… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“No, writing has not changed me for the better at all; I have merely used up part of my restless, conscienceless youth.… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as… — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
“I hear you don't write any more," he says... "Not true," I inform him. "You should see the margins of my student… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The bricoleur , says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
The producer and writers [ of X-Men: Apocalypse ] were kind of feeling me out with, "Are you okay with the fact… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a comfortable film. I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in answering people's questions; I'm interested… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image