Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song. — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail? — John Hiatt Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
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God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It definitely takes a long time, because Umbrella Academy' scenes are very interesting from a writing point of view with all these… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
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Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song].… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I… — Banks Copy Share Image
I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig.… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
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When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
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Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
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