“The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.” — Chris Almeida Copy Share Image
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write. — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Life is a movie. You write your own script, direct and star in your own. — IsiahNunn Copy Share Image
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K.… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit,… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction,… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
