I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less… — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Because it was my first DC project, I wanted to make sure that if I only got one issue out of it,… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that.… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to… — Eugenia Vela Copy Share Image
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across… — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear… — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
