“Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided… — Goapele Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape… — Meia Geddes Copy Share Image
"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors,… — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There are so many elements that make 'Orange' spectacular - the writing, the acting, what we talk about - but we can't… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
“We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer… — Howard Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
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