“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist.… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I don't consciously watch and file lived moments for my work. I have a couple of writer friends who do that and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What is the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich, exactly?” Tess asked, pursing her lips. Erin knew it was her attempt at… — Jenny Lyn Copy Share Image
“She meant you have to live a story for a time.' 'And?' 'And then you can write it, in time. What have… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line.… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit… — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
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I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“XXIII Memento Mori The Book is Writ So lift the cover! Run the race And be a lover. In hope, & love… — Michael Bee Copy Share Image
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
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