The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
When I'm writing stuff, I need to watch the scene in my head, like a little movie, or else it just feels… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, when it's all going well, it's wonderful. You're lost in the world, and you have a relationship with your… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
“. . . Liesl & Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I'm only a kind of book doctor. I can give books new bindings, rejuvenate them a little, stop the bookworms from eating… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you're already… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“A person’s life is a bounded thing that must end. We will leave this earth with unfinished business. Regardless of the outcome… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I… — iJustine Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy'… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
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