Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel… — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
I'm growing as a woman and I'm able to write about things that I wanted to write about when I was younger. — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Write from your heart. Write from your soul... Make the best of your talent & dont let go. Not for anything... — KJ Copy Share Image
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign… — Barbara Carrera Copy Share Image
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing. — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Write horror. Don’t let ANYONE ELSE tell you how to conduct your muse. They’re all sour-grapes, wannabe, no-talent bums who WISH they… — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
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