There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“I was actually thinking about writing, maybe," Owen said. "About Charm?" Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. "No?" Owen said, probably a bit… — James Riley Copy Share Image
When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I really like melodies that have a certain tension against the chords. I like writing things that are sort of insistent. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people. — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened… — Peter Serafinowicz Copy Share Image
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs… — Douglas McIlroy Copy Share Image
“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage,… — Peter Glenville Copy Share Image
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask… — Bert Sugar Copy Share Image
I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors… — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“do you drink because you are afraid of life? the interviewer asked. disgusted with life is more like it, said the writer,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... . — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems,… — Leonard Alfred George Strong Copy Share Image
“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart." J.L. Bond” — J.L. Bond Copy Share Image
