I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is seriously believed by some that the intention may have been geodetic, or, in the view of the cannier, domestic economical.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by… — Bruce Obee Copy Share Image
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as… — Lilian Gafni Copy Share Image
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged… — Angeline Trevena Copy Share Image
You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that.… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you… — Shubham Choudhary Copy Share Image
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it… — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
