You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real… — John 5 Copy Share Image
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And so, with a torn sleeve and a keyboard on which cigarette ash can rest, writers ended up arsonists of recycled material… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you… — Alan Licht Copy Share Image
It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“Language is an exploratory tool. Linking observations and thoughts in an orderly fashion is the business of a philosopher. A writer is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't feel pride like that with my own stuff. When I listen to my own music I'm happy with it, but… — SOHN Copy Share Image
When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to… — Joe Frank Copy Share Image
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time.… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they… — Marie Ferrarella Copy Share Image
“I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea.… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an… — Halsey Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
