It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.” — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got… — Khalid Copy Share Image
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that,… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs,… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know… — Ice T Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer,… — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your… — Judith Weir Copy Share Image
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
“I want to write a song about retaliation called, "Oh Yeah, and I Faked Every Orgasm...While You Were Out of Town.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
