Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. You better be comfortable with your body if you're gonna remove your clothes in public… — Kit Yan Copy Share Image
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
“I was born near Sydney, Australia, a long time ago. A lovely young woman named Dawn married me in 1972 and we… — P.J. Hartnett Copy Share Image
I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to… — Keneth Warren Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who have the ability to write down their goals and design their future. And here is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to… — Martin Samuel Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
![“I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I…” quote by Alex Timbers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/529/alex-timbers-35344_don-t-change_i-ve-worked-on-other-shows-where-the-sen_2161864.jpg)
