I’m a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing this for… — Martin Starr Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make… — Kyle Schmid Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
I came to writing kind of late. I was an engineer, and the one thing I've learned is that you have to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own… — Doug Jones Copy Share Image
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Writing that is good, writing that is powerful enough to evoke a change or an authentic emotion or even… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I understood where I had come from: from a dreary tangle of sadness and pretense, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
“The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows. Now warm, now chill, next joyous, then despairing,… — Daphne Du Maurier Copy Share Image
I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
