When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper...” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No. — Dana White Copy Share Image
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will. Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
