I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes… — Shobana Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
I have a journal that I bought, a separate journal just to specifically write about my boyfriend. And in the very first… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much. — David Eick Copy Share Image
If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy,… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good… — Carole King Copy Share Image
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
“Truthful and loyal. A writer has no obligation to be either, but should choose one less one be chosen for her or… — Rowan Ricardo Phillips Copy Share Image
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