Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences. — Aaron Carter Copy Share Image
“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files” — Howard Hopkins Copy Share Image
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular;… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm still looking to write a great song… You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” — John Waters Copy Share Image
You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write,… — Warren Buffett 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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
