There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time. — James Roday Copy Share Image
Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad's best friend was a food writer and critic, so I was very lucky to eat in beautiful Michelin-starred restaurants growing… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“I love writing about places I know well. Research is my least favourite thing, as it takes time from the story, but… — Dixie Browning Copy Share Image
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album,… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
“Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Zen holds that the faith must be based not on the dead Scriptures, but on living facts, that one must turn over… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
And I could see the writing on the wall. Evidence of little hands Picasso with a purple crayon and I tried to… — Mark Harris Copy Share Image
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a… — Kirk Wilson Copy Share Image
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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