I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I wanted to look like the most diverse writer in comics! Spy genre, space genre, crime genre, and then you realize that… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
All is fair in love I had to go away. A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all… — Matt Belsante Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
My friend was just at my house for a couple days and she was going through my writing, and she grew silent.… — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong… — John C. Bean Copy Share Image
“For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don’t forget. So… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four-… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
