I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love. — Simon Taylor-Davis Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“It’s not publishing that matters; it’s not writing that matters. What matters is feeling alive while writing, washing dishes, driving, etc. Writing… — Barbara Robinette Moss Copy Share Image
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it. — T. J. Thyne Copy Share Image
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
“I write for the child in everybody,that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of… — Madeleine L’Engle Copy Share Image
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The other thing being at UCLA was just being in California and around the movie business. Which I honestly believe, and I've… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
It takes only a little space to write I LOST YOU. . . . But it will take whole of my life… — Mayurkumar Solanki Copy Share Image
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A little mixture of happiness and bliss is all is take to resist the sins of reenacting what you thought you've crossed… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye… — Cyhi the Prynce Copy Share Image
“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
