Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goal growing up was to write a book. That's why I studied English and creative writing in college, and that is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do… — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I don't want to work with anyone who has not sat down with me and has gotten to know me. I don't… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
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I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash… — Bryan Hayes Copy Share Image
I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
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