“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Gansey looked at the handwritten ticket for the pizza in his hand. According to the bubbly writing, their waitress’s name had been… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement… — Jane F. Kotapish Copy Share Image
“This book is written for the professional writer who is making a living, but just barely. It is also for the aspiring… — Mary Moreno Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional… — David Means Copy Share Image
“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
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“I have a friend who is a very successful writer. Early in his career, he wrote a script that I thought was… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed.… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
To all my friends, readers, and students: I apologize for not being able to write you directly, however the God and Goddess… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image