I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly;… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I'm doing interviews and there are pictures of my face, so it's not like I'm hiding who I am. As soon as… — SOHN Copy Share Image
They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh,… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Ever since I was like 13 and 14 writing music, I said, I have to be able to do different types. Because… — Masked Wolf Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job,… — Victoria Gotti Copy Share Image
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the… — Phil Harris Copy Share Image
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high,… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
