People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Remember that you’re looking for the author’s ideas. Begin by stating in rough fashion what you think the writer is talking about—that… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing.… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think… — Saul Zaentz Copy Share Image
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does. — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
