When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of. — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I started writing when was probably 15 or 16. I got put on the stage when I was 14 or 13. — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.” — Harley King Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening.… — Enya Copy Share Image
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like -… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher. — Luke Goss Copy Share Image
“Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced. — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world. — Dede Gardner Copy Share Image
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
