Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out… — Yungblud Copy Share Image
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've always been a little more narrative, a little more linear, a little more direct. People instantly want to classify that as… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“humorous writing, the exclamation mark is the equivalent of canned laughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald – that well-known knockabout gag-man – said it… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music. — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I have to live to write. But I try to discipline myself into writing on the spot as well. I think it's… — Laufey Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must… — Dee Doanes Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes… — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot… — Passenger Copy Share Image
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don’t mean what you say your words will not live… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here,… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image