When you write music that you are very passionate about, being able to bring the visual aspect of it alive with the… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Once I'm writing, I'm very disciplined. There's a certain magic. It's like you're living at a deeper current. It's a very complete… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song.… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“If you're stuck with writing, go for a walk. You're sure to get past that block as you take in the outside… — Peter Buckmaster Copy Share Image
I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
