I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly,… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo C Rosten Copy Share Image
I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time,” Nora said, as she fluttered a series of kisses over his shoulders that sent every nerve in his… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“I was curious and so for fun did analyze and came to the singular conclusion that if the woman you described were… — Stacy Sorrells Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
