I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
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“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
“To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when… — Paco Ignacio Taibo II Copy Share Image
And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simply put: I am an Author with deep passion for the written word. When I read: I want to feel... When I… — Suzanne Steele Copy Share Image
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience.… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own. — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won.… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
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