I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would… — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I don't know what's coming down the pike in 'Gotham.' Part of me goes, 'Man, I just wish I could be in… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
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I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people,… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as… — James Rumford Copy Share Image
I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“If I can change the world at least 1% to peace, truth and altruistic lovingkindness through my writing, my life will not… — Mark F. Kalita Copy Share Image
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
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[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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