I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
“Our lives are like a complex musical score. Filled with all sorts of cryptic writing, sixteenth and thirty-second notes and other strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ...… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“One bright October morning in the year 1828, a lone lorn woman by the name of GUMMIDGE might have been seen standing… — Various Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty… — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I say; Someone has to be a rock star; it might as well be you; Someone has to write books;… — Jamie Freveletti Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
