When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly… — Jonathan Stalling Copy Share Image
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a… — Alex Wolff Copy Share Image
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
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I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated;… — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.” — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood,… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
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Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it. — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
I can write a song, but can't un-right my wrongs. I guess you live and learn, learn when the love is gone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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