Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
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As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“As there is no appearance of daylight, what is to be done during the night? It occurred to me that I would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has… — f scoot fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle… — John Prine Copy Share Image
We're going to open up the libel laws. So when they write falsely, we can sue the media and we can get… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I tend to write about love because I'm always thinking about it. I think a lot though and struggle with overanalyzing. Way… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
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Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
“When sitting in an armchair isn't enough… I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and… — Anna Belfrage Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
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When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
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