I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The age old idea of human dignity comes to apply even to the indigent, even to the slaves, even to immigrants, now… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of… — Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca Copy Share Image
“My goal when writing is to engage the reader. Having my words play out like a movie - Rewarding. Having the reader… — Elizabeth Cook-Howard Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
“ Not being sure of things , he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me. — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Your moustache,” I continue. “It’s kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It’s part of me. I don’t know who… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Do you know how you can tell a professional writer from an amateur?" "No." "An amateur worries about the work before starting.… — Avi Copy Share Image
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
