“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.' — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind. — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
“Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've… — Al Barr Copy Share Image
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
“I won't say that writing tamed the Black Beast. It soothed him, though, enough so he agreed simply to occupy a corner… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.” — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,” — Ruth Ford Elward Copy Share Image
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
It's just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like...the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of… — Brea Grant Copy Share Image
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Bravery is picking up a pen and writing. Bravery is gouging out words from inside you and then imprinting them on a… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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