As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
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I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other… — Desiree Akhavan Copy Share Image
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got… — Khalid Copy Share Image
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Copy Share Image
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was… — Mabel Copy Share Image
If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen. — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image