A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below…

— Phyllis Theroux

“I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses…

— Clarice Lispector

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does…

— Loretta Lux

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You…

— Franka Potente

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

— Spalding Gray

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True…

— William McNamara

Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck…

— Marion Vernoux

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

— Sam Rockwell

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together…

— Slash

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

— Ed O'Brien

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his…

— Beth Orton