Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting… — John Callen Copy Share Image
My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to… — Gza Copy Share Image
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . .… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There's a lot of times where we'll come up with something on the spot, and the writers will catch it in the… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
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I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
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