“There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.” — Gloria Bevan Copy Share Image
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“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is,… — Russell Targ Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
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One of the things I love about doing television is that I don't feel like I'm just purely a writer. I like… — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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