“He’s an indulgent sort of man…… With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing. — Ella Mai Copy Share Image
The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get… — Jillian Bach Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing… — Amanda Abbington Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts… — Rakim Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Good food depends as largely upon the judgment of the cook, as upon the materials used. These recipes and Household Hints are… — Lydia Maria Gurney Copy Share Image
Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller in a joke format. I tell stories, I try to have a lot of jokes constantly through that story.… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill",… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
