I love pens, especially when writing on good-quality paper. But I don't have a favorite - I try all kinds in all… — Shira Goodman Copy Share Image
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And… — Larry Sanders Copy Share Image
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
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“I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.” — Jessie Snow Copy Share Image
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full… — Virgil Suarez Copy Share Image
I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the… — Frank Loesser Copy Share Image
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the… — Rania Attieh Copy Share Image
Let's start spreading work experience and opportunities a little wider so that the photographers, writers, and TV producers of tomorrow are drawn… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
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I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
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I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
