In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Someone once busted on me on facebook for liking one of my own posts. Why the hell would I have posted it… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Themes don't change very much in story telling, and I think each writer has his or her own territory; however, I think… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think then I write, give my thoughts a light, begin pondering about life. Break it down then roll up the lyrics,… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I was living in Argentina in Buenos Aires and I was working as a journalist, but I was earning so little money… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image