When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
“Top 10 Reasons to Establish Written Goals for Your Life 10. Written goals strengthen your character by promoting a long-term perspective. 9.… — Newberry, Tommy Copy Share Image
I've always lived in New York; I never moved to L.A. I was developing and producing and writing a pilot for a… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Does my subjectivity shape the book? Of course it does, and that dynamic can be bad or good, or both! For example,… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
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You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought… — Joe Madison Copy Share Image
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I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.” — Charles Delmar author of My Cooking Coach and creator of MyCookingCoach.com Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny. — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing about cancer is always a challenge for me because it hits so close to home. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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