I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I want to write a book again,” I said to Sam on a blazingly hot afternoon on the veranda of the Red… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me,… — Brooke Valentine Copy Share Image
Everything from the lyrics to the production, solos to the writing - it's all democratic. At the end of the day, you… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British,… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have a back cover like a book where you can get a glimps of the story or a trailer like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible,… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays,… — Stephen Kuusisto Copy Share Image
“Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the… — Cecilia Bartholomew Copy Share Image
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write… — Jain Copy Share Image
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image