In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart.” — Charles A. Cornell Copy Share Image
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Don't do another show just because someone thinks that there's a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
When we started writing this kind of music in the beginning, I didn't think that many people would listen to it, but… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
“If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
