It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything but write for six months after I got my publishing deal. That was just trying to get better… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its… — Gerald Martin Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
We got a Grammy for writing 'No Scrubs.' It contributed to me getting Songwriter of the Year. I was the first woman… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Variety is definitely the spice of life but I love writing office romances (I was a secretary before I became a writer),… — Helen Brooks Copy Share Image
Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
