In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Writing feels safe, you know, it's a hard job, but at least you're in your office or wherever you are and there's… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. — Owen King Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
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