Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year,… — Randy Johnson Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life… — Rick Revelle Copy Share Image
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I try to make the writing as regular and regimented as possible. I usually get up at around 5 a.m. and read… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except… — Wolcott Gibbs Copy Share Image
“When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no… — Sharon Weil Copy Share Image
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the writer's imagination, which is, given the day, time, or date, either a paradise… — H.L. Sudler Copy Share Image
I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
I guess the main thing I definitely don't enjoy is having a job which involves selling things. You become an author because… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“There are many writing courses, there’s plenty of demand for them. The shortage is having something to write about, and that can’t… — Jostein Gaarder The Ringmaster s Daughter Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't have much to say about honesty. All that I feel about it that people don't discuss as far as I… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
