“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience.… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“In any case I fully endorse the singer's attitude towards the booklet that he will write and the child he wishes to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly… — Jeff MacNelly Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“ I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've… — Keak da Sneak Copy Share Image
I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have.… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that. Write when you don’t… — Brian Clark Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I think scrin writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what,… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“If the world is to have a future, it lies in the hands of women. At time of this writing nearly half… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than… — Kathryn Mattingly Copy Share Image
Reading the pilot script, it was written in a very clear way, like the feel of the show, the mockumentary. And Mitch… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The one on Fresh Hell is a little easier, because we make it up. It's a strange kind of hybrid of the… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
