I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something -… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven't met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you… — Jamie Varon Copy Share Image
The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I really write about situations that I have trouble, you know I mean, so I guess .. that's why I feel so… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's… — Chuck Comeau Copy Share Image
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Obviously, writing together is very intimate because it's sort of acting where you need to get to a really deep place to… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
“For the writer that has truly suffered, their pen, their words, their art will become as important as breathing.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
“The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away.” — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
“God--if by God the agnostic means precision, clarity, genuine feeling, accuracy--is in the details only when the writer (or speaker, for that… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I love True Blood and Buffy, and, obviously, this is one of my favorite jobs that I've ever had - but not… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I don't think my skill level is up there as a musician. I think I'm best at writing in general. The musicians… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
