I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain. — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing,… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
