One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
I think political situations usually work their way into my writing, but not necessarily in an explicit way. The environment is so… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There are times when we in Little Dragon write from scratch together, but everyone has their own lives, so it just seems… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I definitely use life experiences. For me, it's extremely hard to write about something I don't know anything about. If I've never… — Brianna Taylor Copy Share Image
Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness,… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is an important weapon of the fascist state. TV and the media are filled with clandestine agents, some posing as liberal… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“problems, your challenges, your obstacles, your goals, and your ideas in writing. Make small lists such as a: To-do list. Everything you… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“So much of what we talked of can never be written. It was born and grew and developed but not visibly. There… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Did you like my novel?" she couldn't resist asking. "Yes, I did. At first I thought it would be typical silver-fork fare.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil.… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
“2 am and I'm still awake writing a song if I get it all down I'll be where it's no longer inside… — Anna Nalick Copy Share Image
When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivity and TV's institutionalization of irony,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“In a recent survey, innovative people — from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers — were asked what techniques they used. Over… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
![“The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.” quote by Randy Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/randy-newman-8029_assignments_the-easiest-thing-i-do-is-assignment-son_1665492.png)
![“[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.” quote by Lauren Shuler Donner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/lauren-shuler-donner-11057_book_noah-hawley-just-a-fantastic-writer-it-s_912574.jpg)
