I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good… — Mabel Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
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For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“In his story Sarrasine, Balzac, speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman, writes this sentence: “It was Woman, with her sudden… — Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
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I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly;… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Ever since I was like 13 and 14 writing music, I said, I have to be able to do different types. Because… — Masked Wolf Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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