The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think that the writers and producers are very… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Ah, o estilo... Você não saberá o que é ter "butterflies in the stomach", novamente, até ter ciência deles.” — Pablo B.P. Santos Copy Share Image
The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Read your paper backward , sentence by sentence, as a final proofreading step. This technique isolates each sentence and makes it easier… — Claire B. May Gordon S. May Copy Share Image
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell… — Thea Gilmore Copy Share Image
I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did… — Claudio Simonetti Copy Share Image
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
