People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher.… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from… — Adam Goldberg Copy Share Image
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth,… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, "the wildest dreams," into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his… — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then,… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications;… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“reading is like drugs, once u addicted of it u cant stay away ofurself from it n Writing is like sex, the… — AMG Copy Share Image
