I usually think about titles. I'll hear somebody say something and write it down in my notes, and whenever we go into… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right,… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
What's in yesterday's newspaper is today's fish-and-chip paper. If it really affects my life so badly, so personally, then I would do… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
“This is how every fairy tale starts. With the storyteller explaining to the reader just how it is. There once was a… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image
After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People always ask me about the role models that I'm providing for kids, and I say I can't be concerned with that.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
