Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's… — Stacey King Copy Share Image
Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Building a person’s character is just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. By instilling values such as obedience to authority, promptness… — Dr. Tim Elmore Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to write from an honest place, because if I don't do that, I'll just end up writing… — Griff Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
When I came to L.A., I absolutely fell in love with the energy of the place. It's such a creative hub, so… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Another writer might question whether you're feeling competitive. But if I talk to Jonah, I know that he truly values my success… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
If what you're writing is genuine, regardless of whether it sounds cliche or people wouldn't necessarily think it's the most brilliant metaphor… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise.… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
I absolutely love writing. As a kid I won spelling bees, but I am really good with grammar. I'm the kind of… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I want my books to exist in the literary world, not only in the art world. I am interested in having a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting,… — Annie Murphy Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I always try to keep my pen game up and basically really write from the heart and whatever I may see. Its… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
