I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression. — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“Once you familiarize yourself with your tools, you should forget about them. It will only throw you off-balance. In all these ‘rolling… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something,… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I… — Sia Copy Share Image
Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I wanted to look like the most diverse writer in comics! Spy genre, space genre, crime genre, and then you realize that… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become… — Walter Huston Copy Share Image
All is fair in love I had to go away. A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all… — Matt Belsante Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
