I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing. — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“There is not much to talk about love, but enough to write books about it.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read. — Jack Bickham Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem. — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. — Martial Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface;… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
