I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm a human being just like you are. And I hurt and love just like everybody else, and people tend to forget… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is… — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
I think I went more toward writing because that's my talent. I don't think I was a great performer... And I like… — Harvey Mason, Jr 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
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress… — Helena Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I'm exhausted from the nonexistent bullshit my mind makes up. To suffer from imagination rather than from reality has got to be… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
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