Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
“I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
On the set, I visit the set for a lot of the rehearsals, and there's always a writer on set. And then… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the… — Kyle Baker Copy Share Image
You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that slowly turns a hidden mountain into… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer.… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song,… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek… — Derrek Lee Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I wake up knowing that there is hope and patience. Every morning I wake up, I surrender myself to the Beautiful universe… — Jawed 's Copy Share Image
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
“The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
