This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved… — Cheryl B. Klein Copy Share Image
We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.' I… — Nam Le Copy Share Image
No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“This does not in any way close the argument for the development of African languages by the intervention of writers and governments.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area.… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not… — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour,… — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were—the writer. I’d warned… — Playboy Copy Share Image
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
