There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want… — Zachary Frerichs Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down… — Phil Coulter Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative.… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits… — Amanda Perez Copy Share Image
I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I was participating in acting and writing for other shows and I knew that eventually I wanted a sitcom of my own. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
