Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.” — P.S. Bartlett Copy Share Image
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you… — David Wade Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't… — David St. John Copy Share Image
