It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.” — Toi Thomas Copy Share Image
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
I've grown from being around other singers. I've learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own… — Luke James Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Here's what I think is good about 'Ted Lasso' and what I'm proud of in it, as a writer: It's about kindness… — Brett Goldstein Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm not a sketch writer. I know what I am: I have a sensitive comedic sensibility. What turns me on is subtle… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was… — Ami McKay Copy Share Image
“...and above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers. — Haaz Sleiman Copy Share Image
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I like to think when I'm writing about God I'm actually worshiping Him.” — Alphys Pouvei Copy Share Image
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Is 'creative writing program' oxymoronic? How could you teach someone to make something new?” — Laurie Calhoun Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
