“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“This book [The Decameron] is a reminder that the storyteller doesn't have a monopoly on the exercise of the imagination; it's based… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
“They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking? She smiled. I think you can figure it out. You can read the writing on the wall. And… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
In effect, Hillary Clinton would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“So nothing will ever be written down again. Perhaps the act of writing is necessary only when nothing happens.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly. — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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