Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Dre was extremely involved in 'Restless,' but I told him that the next record had to be called 'Man Vs. Machine' because… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“What did you think?' I blurted out, heat rushing to my cheeks. 'Of what?' 'My writing.' 'Oh,'Ford said. He looked at me… — Amy Greene Copy Share Image
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph—not because there’s money in it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing pop songs, you go in and you have a concept and you want it to be this hugely relatable concept. It… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image