“Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
It's better to write a pilot rather than write a spec show. In some cases, you have to do both, but more… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
People who give an unconditional credit to the work of original thinker, writer and doer, deserve an equal plaudit. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed… — Mardra Sikora Copy Share Image
I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
My Life is a Story Written By God .I don't Know exactly how my friends came in to my story,But I hope… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once… — Steve Jordan Copy Share Image
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn,… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner Copy Share Image
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal. — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
