I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it. — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit… — Ocean Crisstopher Poet Copy Share Image
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“I tried to imagine myself as an old lady, grey and wrinkled, with my life behind me. And suddenly I knew what… — Helen Douglas Copy Share Image
“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an interview with me, I might read it, but I don't read the comments because they're so hateful sometimes. When… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I don't know if I can see myself writing another 'Saw' film. It's such a special part of my life, and I… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains.… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
The writings with love is always beautiful. But just because love is beautiful, does not mean that its always happy. — Ryaj Ablando Catayas Copy Share Image
The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was 'Mr. Mom.' That was my first feature film. — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
“Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches… — Trace Cyrus Copy Share Image
Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game,… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people just can't take how real the world can be. Even if they're your friend they’ll drop away from you like… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have… — Rebecca Mader Copy Share Image
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
