The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here?… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
The doctor part of me recognises the light and shade of medical life, but the writer in me is more attracted by… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all… — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's… — James Payn Copy Share Image
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out. — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don't necessarily identify… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline. — Kareem Mortimer Copy Share Image
“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never… — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin'… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
