When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing.… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything… — Brendan Bayliss Copy Share Image
“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to.… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy. — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
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