None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons .… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“The Price of a Muse I write for resurrection to see bodies reassemble and rise I've tried to write my dog off… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment"… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world because it has to be practiced in this very separate private world,… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“It may be that in his rogues the writer gratifies instincts deep-rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that -… — Tana French Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it… — Milissa R. Bailey Copy Share Image
In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
“Give AI the right to perform any task that a human editor normally performs” in the realm of writing. These include drafting,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such… — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Copy Share Image
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
I'd love to try and teach Donald Trump how to write a song. I'd love to put him in a room with… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
