I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's… — Stacey King Copy Share Image
Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing… — David Slade Copy Share Image
Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love -… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also… — Kyla Pratt Copy Share Image
I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album 'Ya Nass.' He was writing the script for 'Only Lovers Left Alive.'… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece… — Darryl Steven Markowitz Copy Share Image
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“My writing became the axis upon which all my identity and happiness hinged. It was now outward-looking, a self-conscious performance. I was… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
“Guts,” never much of a word outside the hunting season, was a favorite noun in literary prose. People were said to have… — Renata Adler 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
“The more I wrote, the less I needed to play. Once I got started I couldn't stop. This was my salvation. Writing… — Ted Heller Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Steven Pressfield writes in his bestselling book The War of Art, “Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
