I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to,… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“Not only had Yates continued to grow as a writer in terms of craft, but also philosophically, salvaging from the ruins of… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes we'll walk into a set, and I'll think, 'Oh, this film doesn't look like this.' You know, 'cause I read the… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always looking for what I call the universal, something everyone has felt and they can identify with. That's… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap… — Cordae Copy Share Image
I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again. — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I… — Larry Norman Copy Share Image
“All might appear calm, as it did at the time of this writing, but make no mistake: our global monetary system still… — Paul Vigna Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
“Some writers add beauty to the world while others lament its ugliness. Left with these two options, I'd say Wiener wasn't so… — Gabriela Weiner Copy Share Image
For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we… — Shayne Ward Copy Share Image
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
