Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there's a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It's just… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I shall write something beautiful, profound… I have of late, yet wherfore I know not… Wait…that is Shakespeare…ummm… I know… I went… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer,… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.” — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
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If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel… — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm growing as a woman and I'm able to write about things that I wanted to write about when I was younger. — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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