If I have experienced something in my life, it's probably going to be written about, and I don't particularly care if the… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
But who the fuck do we really put the blame on? The demons that are inside of her, or the ones who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“First love is all sensation and ambient zooms, and letting the world ebb. Like writing, occasionally, it feels combustive. Greedy. It’s unsophisticated… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I'm going to write to you about the emptiness that was left when you took my boy away. I'm going to write… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I learned how to really write when I was in third grade and I fell in love with the secrecy of journalling. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over. — King Krule Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a… — Jocko Henderson Copy Share Image
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
Various political parties, even if they're in direct opposition with one another, still say they are the spokesperson for the people. The… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner… — Bono Copy Share Image
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.” — Keith Botsford Copy Share Image
It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Baarish' is very close to me. It is based on my real love story. Hence, writing and composing this song came naturally… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
