I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing. — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth,… — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and… — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want… — Aminatta Forna 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
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book,… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them… — Elizabeth Hernandez Copy Share Image
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job… — Bindu Copy Share Image
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