A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even… — Feist Copy Share Image
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do… — Lars Saabye Christensen Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields.… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
My weaknesses are also my strengths. Youd find it funny how I'm complacent with pain. The type who'd fall down seven times,… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will… — Charles Demuth Copy Share Image
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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