I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was. — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the… — John Truby Copy Share Image
There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“It's wonderful to look back at our old writing and cringe. It simply means we have grown and can write better now.… — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“We write in darkness. We love in alleys. We breathe into beige paper bags. Anything to mollify the confusion. Anything to simplify… — Bill Yarrow Copy Share Image
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I guess I've been blessed with insomnia because I do a lot of my writing at night. Because I don't sleep as… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack” — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I never anticipated that I would be writing a book and never anticipated that people would want to read it and it'd… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
