As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Getting a flow going with writing can be hard, but sometimes if you dig into the right emotions that you want to… — Faith Clarkson Copy Share Image
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I watch 'Watchmen', and I wish I was in that writers room, so I could figure out what they're doing, story-breaking-wise. I've… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians.… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book… — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line… — Lance Wubbels Copy Share Image
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is love? Writers, philosophers, and even comedians have been pondering this question for a long time.” — Aesha K Shah Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
