Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the… — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high,… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things… — Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert Copy Share Image
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness” — Mark Peter Evans Copy Share Image
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will… — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I have a theory that there has never been a bad movie written about television because the writers have all been victims… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
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