I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.” — Kandi Steiner Copy Share Image
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. — Gza Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
"March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.” — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“Descriptive writing is more than visual; it employs all the senses.” — Cheryl St.John Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
