As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous.… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled… — Sheila Bender Copy Share Image
Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk… — Robert Leckie Copy Share Image
You did not disturb Hemingway before noon on Monday through Friday - he was in his office, writing the books that made… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
“I have spent my life 'dreaming' of becoming a writer. I co-wrote 2 books & I write articles for a magazine. Guess… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Storytellers tell stories, of course, but they aren't alone in doing so. The dawn tells a story; so does the sun as… — Edward Myers Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the… — Jeffrey Klarik Copy Share Image
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren't locked… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really… — Alfonso Herrera Copy Share Image
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies. — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
That's how I process issues. I like writing them out. It's calming for me when things slow down in that way. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it… — Al Jardine Copy Share Image
I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
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