A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older… — Piggy D Copy Share Image
“Surely I write not for the hopeful young, Or those who deem their happiness of worth, Or such as pasture and grow… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“A producer is a man with a dream. I say, ‘I don’t write, I don’t direct, I don’t act, I don’t compose… — Larry Truman Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The Price of a Muse I write for resurrection to see bodies reassemble and rise I've tried to write my dog off… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment"… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public… — Moby Copy Share Image
Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“St. John of the Cross, writing of the "intuitions" by which God reaches the soul, says: {147} "They enrich us marvellously. A… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Music is all about seduction, so it's an ongoing flirtation, but watching anyone do what they are talented at is totally intoxicating.… — Ophira Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
