Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
“My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard - it's so hard and frustrating and annoying and takes a lot of time. I wish that we… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on… — Jeanette Michelle Copy Share Image
There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me;… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having… — Ruth Peterman Copy Share Image
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat. — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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