I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T.… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
If you're struggling and you just get a sense when you're writing that you might be running out of ideas, that's when… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
“In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've… — Al Barr Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“I created the Katie Fforde Bursary because I was a "nearly there" writer for a long time. I found it a bit… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“ If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i… — Drunk-On-Writing Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
“wife, Halpern, a writer and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, profile a Bhutanese refugee community in New Hampshire (p. 25) for” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
“To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by you;… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast.… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
“Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be… — Leslie McIntyre Copy Share Image
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I’m drunk.” — Shoshaku Jushaku Copy Share Image
