I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
