“The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them.” — Sameer Khan Copy Share Image
“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver Copy Share Image
I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.” — Nancy M. Malone Copy Share Image
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
“I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a… — Michelle Dennis Evans Copy Share Image
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A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we… — Jerry Cleaver Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
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