You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or… — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises…… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm excited about becoming a transmedia storyteller. The idea that we can tell the 'Agent Mom' story online with MTV Comics and… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
“The essential key for writing is to write regularly — like it or not — great ideas come often by writing; releasing… — Robert Marc Friedman Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.' — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
“You need to love the villain as much as you need to love the hero if you’re going to have a great… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
Corporate career is like my wife, and writing is my girlfriend. My priority is the first but enjoy doing the second, as… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a… — Murray Head Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me.… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them… — Anna Cummins Copy Share Image
“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
