Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing… — Adele Copy Share Image
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches,… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
“Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.” — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“If you have talent, but no morality-monkey riding upon your back, then, of course, this is where you should stop.” — Kat Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is… — Flume Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music.… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on,… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image