I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are… — Irving Kaplansky Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
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What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered:… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well. — Nikki Gil Copy Share Image
I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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