“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music.… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The first time I go out to Nashville, ever (at this point I had only heard the rumors about what it's like)… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
“Writing it down is the way I make it real, the way I find my way into what it is I feel.… — James Howe Copy Share Image
“E. L. Doctorow quote that I believe, too: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as… — Paula Treick DeBoard Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got… — Sly Stone Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is… — Akash Karia Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“Rippling through these letters,’ Kemp detects, ‘are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When you are trying to find your writing voice don’t try to emulate any writer, not even your favorite. Sit quietly, listen,… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named. After that, when I met… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
