Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap… — Cordae Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always looking for what I call the universal, something everyone has felt and they can identify with. That's… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Everything from the lyrics to the production, solos to the writing - it's all democratic. At the end of the day, you… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British,… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have a back cover like a book where you can get a glimps of the story or a trailer like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me,… — Brooke Valentine Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAGE - MALAYALAM. I BORN… — Saravan Maheswer Copy Share Image
“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
“I'm an empty page, I'm an open book, write Your story on my heart, come on and make Your mark Author of… — Francesca Battistelli Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image