People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write. — Paul Gray Copy Share Image
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat… — Chancery Stone Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
