My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
“Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains… — Joseph M. Williams Copy Share Image
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep… — Melanie Iglesias Copy Share Image
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I'm exhausted from the nonexistent bullshit my mind makes up. To suffer from imagination rather than from reality has got to be… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress… — Helena Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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