I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content.… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I sung from an early age and I was always given nice parts in school musicals, but I definitely wasn't the golden… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line,… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they… — Tate Taylor Copy Share Image
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves.… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
“You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians’ introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
