“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion; with your mind and with your heart. Never forget who you are writing for, but don’t write just… — Monty Marsden Copy Share Image
I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's… — Tim Carmody Copy Share Image
There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting… — Lukas Haas Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing. — Josh Flitter Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“as he reads the articles he talks about the writers, most of whom he knows from his days as a fighter, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian… — William Jackson Harper Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
