Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and… — Kyle Copy Share Image
“You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty—done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes.… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines - I write everything. Just because I… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
“An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills.… — Nan Merrick Phifer Copy Share Image
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point… — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the… — KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution Copy Share Image
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re… — Kermit E. Heartsong Copy Share Image
![“Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as…” quote by Jerry Bruckheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c06/jerry-bruckheimer-10690_book_sophie-kinsella-s-writing-just-captivate_477226.jpg)
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