“I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." ( Letter to Cynthia Asquith , November 1913)” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“It’s like you’re a book I’ve read a thousand time without ever picking up. Your prose that effortlessly falls off my tongue… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems… — Caitlin Horrocks Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“I've worked really hard to make myself a better writer. I don't think writing is something that comes to people naturally; it… — Nathan Nixon Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about,… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters. — Lyle Kessler Copy Share Image
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Youre right, I do write a lot. In some ways, staying home and not being able to tour was kind of normal… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.” — Michelle D. Kwasney Copy Share Image
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better.… — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
“be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
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