Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I definitely don't aspire to writing that's 'timeless,' whatever that means. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...” — Cynthia Batten Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub. — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons. — Paul Conrad Copy Share Image
“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a… — Ricardo Fleshman Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
My best writing day starts with coffee from our local Cypriot cafe and a newspaper from the Tamil corner shop - they… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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