...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own. — Nick Castle Copy Share Image
I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.' — Taboo Copy Share Image
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
“Do you prefer fermented or distilled? This is a trick question. It doesn’t matter how much you like wine, because wine is… — Stuart Connelly Copy Share Image
You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Obviously, you take the risk to step over the line any time you do something where comedians interact with each other. Like… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I was approached by the writers of 'The Bridge,' and they were looking for a song that would go along with the… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
“Every writing session after this realization, I dedicated five minutes (sometimes more, never less) and wrote out a quick description of what… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me. — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album. — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I had brainwashed myself into saying things like, 'If people don't like what I'm writing then they shouldn't read it.' — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
