“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
“Comic book writers often suggest that women don’t have the same dedication to the noble cause, because their need for love is… — Mike Madrid Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can.… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
“Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around… — Matt Kindt Copy Share Image
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
Let women write horror. Let women write darkness, let women write trauma, without having to carve out their own trauma to justify… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper. — John Prine Copy Share Image
I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down… — Paul Ince Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
