“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. — Thelma Ritter Copy Share Image
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love. — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The way that I write is very instinctual and based off raw feeling--I'm a very emotional person and I think that comes… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“In the writings of many contemporary psychics and mystics (e.g., Gopi Krishna, Shri Rajneesh, Frannie Steiger, John White, Hal Lindsay, and several… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a… — Michelle Dennis Evans Copy Share Image
“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the… — Helen Pitts Copy Share Image
“Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false… — Christina Sunley Copy Share Image
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague. — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they… — David Almond Copy Share Image
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