My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
'Band Played On' is a good one. Barbara Orbison, who was Roy's wife, was involved in publishing in Nashville because she oversaw… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in… — Chuck Inglish Copy Share Image
Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers' apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show.… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
Jade, I can't see you anymore. I could't speak. I started to breathe heavily. He stepped closer. This is goodbye I guess.… — Jade Copy Share Image
When I try to write love, it only turns into horror. Thinking about it with a clear head, feeling such deep emotions… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break… — Duo Duo Copy Share Image
I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music.… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Slater used to be a poet, he's nothing now, and he sort of looks on Robby and me with awe because we… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
We started out with a lot of bands in the same generation as ours, and there are very few left. Mainly, I… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies!… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
“His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
