I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps.… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.” — Ka Hancock Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns,… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My life wasn't always smooth sailing. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer, so I spent a lot of time… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Write like you are the last person on earth; like no one will ever read your story. Tell the story YOU want… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Karbala is what happens when this life becomes an expanse of death. That is the destiny of the writer of stories, janab.” — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
So 'Heaven On My Mind' is a song I would never have thought about writing. But I really loved the concept knowing… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
“Like his other books, Kershaw has written a rousing tale of little-known heroes . . . The Few marks Kershaw as a master storyteller." — Booklist” — Alex Kershaw Copy Share Image
A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
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