Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
It's aggravating to me when you meet people that are just... you know, there's a difference between wanting to be an actor… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business? — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you're a writer in Hollywood, you don't get to work with other writers. You barely get to meet other writers. We're… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
