I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out,… — Meena Alexander Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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