I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any… — Alexander Murdoch Mackay Copy Share Image
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“Yes, writing is a weapon, Delphine, a bloody weapon of mass destruction. Writing is even more powerful than anything you can imagine.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast… — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
“• “To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature… — The editors n+1 Copy Share Image
I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work.… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't know a writer who doesn't feel some sense of glamour and magic and a complex, wistful sadness emanating from the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love… — Doran Larson Copy Share Image
“I would use the first week of the moon to organize chapters, do interviews, and talk with friends and colleagues about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
