There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like… — Ralph Strangis Copy Share Image
No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference. — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it,… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
“will wear you out in a hurry. But because I make my living writing books, I would really like to ask your… — Subjudica House Copy Share Image
My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t get it down on paper it decomposes in my head. This… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for… — Maurice Hall Copy Share Image
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of… — Violet Winspear Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
