Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
“So many writers had grown lyrical over spring. And, one must admit, it was easy to love a lamb: but how soon… — Heron Carvic Copy Share Image
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was… — Mart Crowley Copy Share Image
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh;… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or,… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Automated gender analysis of my writings often marks me as male, probably because I write about technology, and also about war. But… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, you and I have probably seen a whole lot of family films - you have to do something special.… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
“When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
