What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing… — Verite Copy Share Image
“Christ Took Our Punishment 21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person.… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's… — Halsey Copy Share Image
“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“Readers find most flashbacks intolerable. Yet a lot of neophyte writers flash back like mad. Why? No one but the Creator of… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
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