“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
