Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
When I wrote for myself before as an artist, I probably wrote about 15, 20 songs a year. I thought that was… — LP Copy Share Image
Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
“Like many of the kids I write about, I once was a runaway myself—and a few (but not all) of the other… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“To Scottie July 1937 I honestly believed with no effort on my part [10 years earlier at 30 on his first trip… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that… — James Corden Copy Share Image
A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and… — Nathan Bransford literary agent Copy Share Image
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. Filling pages and people with inspiration. When my thoughts don't want to rest on… — Antonia Perdu Copy Share Image
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
“Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it.… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives:… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection… — F.F. Bruce Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant… — Caleb Followill Copy Share Image
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