It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
For me, when you're writing out your problems, you can kind of figure out what you're feeling. Once you know what the… — Coco Gauff Copy Share Image
[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
In the past, I'd been sort of a fan of writing a coat hanger of a script, and something I could hang… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I write that I will learn a language and take up the piano. Margaret can teach me. This might help her get… — M.J. Hyland Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My aphorisms have the power to translate my ideas into written words that clearly express my feelings and convictions. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music. — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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