I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster.… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me,… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I just think I'm a narcissist, really! I guess when I write albums, they take a huge amount of time out of… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England,… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit… — David Shore Copy Share Image
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.” — Nancy LaRonda Johnson Copy Share Image
It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
“Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that.… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I'm a Benedictine Nun in outlook; I divide my time evenly so one third is spent in academe, another third on writing… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
