I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“We’ve all seen the movies where the hero is in trouble, he’s surrounded by twenty people, but you know he’s going to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary...I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before… — Tana French Copy Share Image
