“What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers. "I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that… — Adele Griffin Copy Share Image
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You take all the time to write a song: you have to let it ooze on out by its natural self and… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Most of us will. We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated,… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I am interested in people, and I am interested enough in people that I want to be friends with a lot of… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day - every morning… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
We didn't tell anyone we had gotten signed, because people can freak out a little. But we started working with writers. I… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going,… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
It's self-destructive to become confident regarding your own acting. Acting, your entire career depends on a lot of things. What kind of… — Jitendra Kumar Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I went down the creative path in my teen years, and when I was in high school, in my junior year, I… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
