Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar… — Bernard Fanning Copy Share Image
For three months, we kept going into these writing sessions going, 'Man, I just heard this song on the radio, and it… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to… — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Looking through my internet history you'd think I'm trying to kill someone but really I just want cool names from dragons. #this… — Kurokotesuya Copy Share Image
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
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