As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You… — Jessie James Decker Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
“No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that,… — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
“The site of his thinking and writing was a small office wedged in one corner of his shaggy house, on whose door… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be… — Roxana Robinson Copy Share Image
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If… — Roselle Angwin Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
The main thing is to believe writers know what their voices are, and if they are left alone, they will come through… — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children.… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So… — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image
“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
