I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen. — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“But she had to write. And one letter to the Times, she used to say to Miss Brush, cost her more than… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other… — Desiree Akhavan Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line… — Lance Wubbels Copy Share Image
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image