I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.” — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily -… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
These words "accessible" and "emotionally available" get thrown at us from agents and editors and publishers - or the reverse - if… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines. — Luca Toni Copy Share Image
“Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
