I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other. — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance… — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first book, 'In Harm's Way,' I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I answer that I try to write true stories but that at a given point the story becomes unbearable because of it’s… — Ágota Kristof Copy Share Image
To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer.… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“The human mind is itself a miraculous machine. I am writing right now, but I have no idea how this is happening.… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too. — Benny Anderson Copy Share Image
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer. — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
