So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online. — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible… — C418 Copy Share Image
To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
In this day and age, if you're aspiring to be an actor, and you're putting all your eggs in one basket, you… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy… — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“I don’t recall the moment when I officially became a storyteller—a talented liar—but here I must quote Simon Ortiz, the Acoma Pueblo… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
