As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Actually, I wish I did nothing but write. Acting takes a lot of heat off of me monetarily but it puts a… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know… — Sharon O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You're not going to write the greatest novel ever written. Nor will I. Nor will anyone. Why? Because the greatest novel ever… — Sarah M. Cradit Copy Share Image
“I photographer because I want a visual diary. Photography lets me capture the fleeting moments of daily life, the images would otherwise… — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will… — Charles Demuth Copy Share Image
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
