I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare. — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
“Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - ” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than...… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it.… — Matthew D. Forgenti Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All… — Naveed Saleh Copy Share Image
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would. — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
