About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Christian layman, minister, writer, teacher, or whoever it might be, gets to thinking that there is something important about him,… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
You have girls that sing about guys ain't paying their bills and men are this and men are that and I write… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years… — Brent Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To… — André Brink Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert,… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My wife and I replaced our nest with one on wheels. The RV became our new home. It's remarkable how homey it… — David James Copy Share Image
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