“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true.… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best… — Christopher Lennertz Copy Share Image
We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No,… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping… — Gerald Priestland Copy Share Image
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very… — Mido Hamada Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line.… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
“The violence of Hegel’s writing style consists in not allowing the reader to translate the conflicts of a proposition into the higher… — Katrin Pahl Copy Share Image
Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself… — James Corden Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Improv is a fun thing to do on stage with others, sketch comedy is a great way to showcase your writing and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream,… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
