I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write… — Mika Copy Share Image
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
