I started out writing and producing as a way for me to get the confidence to put out my own record and… — MNEK Copy Share Image
When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part… — Mike Mayhall Copy Share Image
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room. — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them — Greyson Chance Copy Share Image
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing prose. I doubt anything will come of that, but I like the idea of creating things… — Alex G Copy Share Image
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again. — Iain Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Writing is my main interest; it is where my heart is. I always want to continue writing. Apart from that, I enjoy… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time. — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it,… — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
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