You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song,… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer.… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the… — Sia Copy Share Image
When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school… — Avi Copy Share Image
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
When I talk to Ryan Murphy or Ali Adler about my past or things in my personal life, occasionally pieces of that… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
“Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Aquarius have a hard time expressing themselves and talking about their problems. But they can through writing, drawing, or music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
“The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek… — Derrek Lee Copy Share Image
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
