Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
You never meet the writer when you're making a TV movie in America - they're too ashamed to show up and see… — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and… — Pumpsie Green Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint -… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family.… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work. — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story. — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff.… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
