When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and… — Heather McDonald Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings,… — W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham Copy Share Image
Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing… — Jonathan Coulton Copy Share Image
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not directly attributable to… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“...slowly I discerned a familiar shift in my concentration. That compulsion that prohibits me from completely surrendering to a work of art,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day.… — Daya Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
No. He cleared his throat. Im serious, we are really different. To those who dont know me and Stark's secret will know… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Anthony DeCurtis came on board as a line editor and right away the project hit another level; his input snapped my sometimes… — Tom Moon Copy Share Image
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up… — Michael Patrick Walker Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
