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Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you’ll find there… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
“They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve. THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm Copy Share Image
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the… — Benedict Samuel Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image