I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about all my dogs that I know and love and are named after these desserts, and the experiences… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you've spent more than an hour plotting a getaway route, you're either a writer or a criminal. Or maybe a cheating… — Peggy Rothschild Copy Share Image
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process. — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well,… — Matias Tellez Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school, they told me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
“Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
