The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary,… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To Frances Turnbull Nov. 9, 1938 p. 368 I've read the story carefully and, Frances, I'm afraid the price for doing professional… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“When I read Saint Augustine’s writings, I do not get the impression that he is a man who died more or less… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why?… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
“I maintain that cultural sensitivity should be replaced by cultural awareness. Awareness implies research, consideration, thought, and judiciousness… Sensitivity denies equal access… — Scott M. Roberts Copy Share Image
I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are such feelings which the heart could not express. Some people liked to sing, dance, hurt themselves, suicidal, scream, cry, emote,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It wasn't like I told my family, 'I want to be a singer. I want to be a writer. I want to… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
