“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible,… — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
![“I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.” quote by Curtis Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/curtis-hanson-9380_direct_i-had-written-the-script-a-few-years-ear_2946717.jpg)
