I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative. — Katrina Lake Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
“You’re allowed to vegetate in front of the TV, but first you need to put your running shoes on and walk outside… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writing feels safe, you know, it's a hard job, but at least you're in your office or wherever you are and there's… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“Feed your creative mind. Feed your joyful, selfless heart. Feed your soul to grow. Feed with books, music, painting or arts, Feed… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST… — Basith Copy Share Image
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
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