As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it. — Feist Copy Share Image
“Mounting anything on a plaque instantly transforms it from trash into an award. For example, a dry disposable pen goes from junk… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
“You can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose...in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it… — Jamie Holoran Copy Share Image
“The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself...all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full… — Ryan Lewis Copy Share Image
“Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like… — Breece D'J Pancake Copy Share Image
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost… — George Sand Copy Share Image
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what… — Billy Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive,… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories.… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
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