“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must… — Dee Doanes Copy Share Image
The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes… — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot… — Passenger Copy Share Image
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don’t mean what you say your words will not live… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“All you had to say was, 'I am a writer,' and you became one. You didn't even have to write anything. You… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here,… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
I think it can be fun to write about relationships just because so many people can relate to what you are feeling. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
One of my favorites is 'Parks and Recreation.' Great show; awesome writing; beautiful, diverse cast. They also have a very diverse writer's… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image