“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I can't hire other people to write songs for me. I have to write them myself. — Shakira Copy Share Image
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It's quite different writing for films and for myself. You have to help guide a scene along emotionally, and the wrong approach… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer,… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When I'm writing stuff, I need to watch the scene in my head, like a little movie, or else it just feels… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
I sung from an early age and I was always given nice parts in school musicals, but I definitely wasn't the golden… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I… — Julie Davis Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band,… — Jeremy Enigk Copy Share Image
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
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The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Depression was my body's way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination's way of redefining them.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
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