Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or… — Marvin Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so.… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“I am not a good enough writer to convey the intense emotion I felt over my newfound self-respect. It was a rehabilitation,… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
When I was young I drew constantly in my sketchbooks to learn to see things. My first teacher in school, Gilbert Stone,… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up… — Jeffery Taylor Copy Share Image
“Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on… — Sonnia Kemmer Copy Share Image
“But if one wants to be primarily a writer, then, in our society, one is an animal that is tolerated but not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally,… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful things cannot be written, unfortunately. Fortunately. We would have to be able to write with our eyes, with wild… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“Here’s the truth: You won’t find your voice over time. I don’t believe that writers arrive at this strange destination called “their… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
