I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through. — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative… — Common Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
For me, the real goal is to integrate. The thing that I'm most happy with is the fact that I've been able… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that. — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“I love writing about places I know well. Research is my least favourite thing, as it takes time from the story, but… — Dixie Browning Copy Share Image
I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
Artists become fans of the writers and keep using them. But they don't really acknowledge them when they become big. It's about… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. — Tracy Keenan Wynn Copy Share Image
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Caleb Omotunde, a versatile artist with a passion for creativity. Alongside his writing career, he is an accomplished painter, capturing the essence… — Caleb Omotunde Copy Share Image
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested… — Danielle Bradbery Copy Share Image
“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
