All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not,… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
As a youngster when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
“Let me be very clear. For me geography does not exist! I strongly object to the whole concept of “foreign literature”...and speaking… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first… — Cary Brothers Copy Share Image
“It was not a happy ending, but a happy middle - at last, after so many fraught beginnings. Their story would be… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Today's culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. Jayne Meadows I just loved and love life. I love it today. Jayne… — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“His interest in you is merely rebellion. You are different. Forbidden. Something he knows is wrong." Her dark eyes traveled over my… — Kelly Keaton Copy Share Image
“He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days… — Robert Wilder Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“He probably hadn't written it. I knew that. I certainly hadn't written mine. But after yesterday, his pompous sneer was permanently imprinted… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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![“Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and who knows who else) and "Most of the Time." Go figure.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a2/jay-michaelson-15590_beautiful_weirdly-by-the-way-bob-dylan-also-manage_2785956.jpg)
