Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good… — Alex Gansa Copy Share Image
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
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The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn… — Nico Tortorella Copy Share Image
I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,… — Simon Cheshire Copy Share Image
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show… — Brian Van Holt Copy Share Image
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact… The absence of the flesh in writing… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read,… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
When I would write songs that were more pop-y in a studio, I would go home and write a song that was… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song,… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
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I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
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