He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way,… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Unless a story has a specific ending you know when you start it then a story is as long as a story… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.” — Paul H Tubb Copy Share Image
A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“I’m 100% certain of the quality of story I’m writing until I finish the outline and actually begin to write. At this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Dear 2600: …So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can write a song and a thousand people could hear it and there will be countless different reasons why those people… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ… — Bonnie L. Oscarson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience. — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE':… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If anything one writes isn't still being talked about ten years later then it wasn't worth writing in the first place.” — Howard Hinton Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and… — Kodi Smit-McPhee Copy Share Image
