There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I do write short stories and novelettes, and I've written a couple novels - nothing published yet, it's just for me. It's… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. You better be comfortable with your body if you're gonna remove your clothes in public… — Kit Yan Copy Share Image
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think… — Don Helms Copy Share Image
I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
“I was born near Sydney, Australia, a long time ago. A lovely young woman named Dawn married me in 1972 and we… — P.J. Hartnett Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak… — Ahmad Balshe Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving,… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing. — Josh Flitter Copy Share Image
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion; with your mind and with your heart. Never forget who you are writing for, but don’t write just… — Monty Marsden Copy Share Image
“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian… — William Jackson Harper Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
