I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be.… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without… — Elizabeth Buchan Copy Share Image
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“The Stadium Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm underrated, but more reserved. Only time will tell, but I've been good so far in being consistent and… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing.… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years! — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni Copy Share Image
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“. . .the essence of Faery is all around us, written in every leaf.” — Frederic S. Durbin Copy Share Image
I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image