The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A mist rises from a nearby mound. It could be me, that mist, or simply the caretaker’s mower-dust. If the breeze blows… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
“You think of travelers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to… — Tobias Jesso Jr Copy Share Image
I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin… — Istvan Deak Copy Share Image
“But what of Lenore, of Lenore’s hair? Here is hair that is clearly within and of itself every color—blond and red and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“There are only two living American authors fully deserving of the Nobel Prize. One is Lewis Mumford. The other is Wallace Stegner,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
