For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull.… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast:… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by.… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
That's the really fun thing about writing for series versus just doing a pilot or even doing a feature: you get to… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing… — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I think the slowness of exchange is over, and the idea of waiting for a response - that's gone. People don't want… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
The reward is the finished product, for me that is my light at the end of the tunnel. What comes together in… — Jon Jon Augustavo Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood. — Ned Beatty Copy Share Image
“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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