My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Teeth' came about after a month or two long blur of writing and pushing ourselves to go a step further than 'Youngblood.'… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
IU and I hosted a music program together, and she had told me that she would be writing a song for me.… — Sulli Copy Share Image
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
“What kind of thing is the religion those writings describe? The first difficulty before the enquirer is that the writings do not… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
