One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle -… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.… — Lisa Fugard Copy Share Image
India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically,… — Michele Rosenthal Copy Share Image
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal… — Slawomir Cenckiewicz Copy Share Image
One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because… — Eddie Murray Copy Share Image
“I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life,… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
“Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
“They say don’t fall in love with writers because their poems are messy and their letters are empty words dressed up to… — Courtney Peppernell Copy Share Image
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It’s important to put it like that: not “I am a writer,” but rather “I write stories.” If you put the emphasis… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name… One of our tribe of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The difference between writing where you know where to draw the line and writing where you're being way too mean is whether… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image