I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character.… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project,… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
“What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?” — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of the biggest reasons I'm a writer: I love creating worlds but also discovering worlds and getting into the… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable” — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do,… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking… — James Young Copy Share Image
“Writing is one long session of insecurity and fear punctuated by occasional elation. Which is why so many of us are on… — Kelli Stanley Copy Share Image
Turkey are the independent people. We are our own nation in this world - a nation of writers, journalists, artists, moviemakers, and… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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