The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“The thing that worries me is that I'm so different from other writers. Connecticut is just another state to me. And nature… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what it’s like to be a friend any more than you do. I think “hard” when it should be… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think that there have been times, especially with writing songs, where you sit in a room with somebody, and they could… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and… — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time,… — Jacques Brel Copy Share Image
