“I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most… — Katie Kiesler Copy Share Image
“If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.” [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard,… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy. — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“[Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
“I should charge my bank money every time I endorse the back of a check. What is the going rate these days… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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