I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
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I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I had really not been out of the United States much, except for Mexico. I thought, "Jesus Christ, this [Russia] is like… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
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Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel.… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
“I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
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