“I want to write a song about retaliation called, "Oh Yeah, and I Faked Every Orgasm...While You Were Out of Town.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company.… — Betsy Hodges Copy Share Image
“My writing is excellent. Perhaps I might call it a talent, I am quite the calligraphist. Let me write you something as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters:… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The financing option favoured by this writer would be to fund a basic income from the construction of sovereign wealth funds, along… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
When I was asked to write a concept for a telenovela, I didn't underestimate my non-experience in the field. — John Kani Copy Share Image
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
