The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken… — Nikka Costa Copy Share Image
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer,… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I shall write something beautiful, profound… I have of late, yet wherfore I know not… Wait…that is Shakespeare…ummm… I know… I went… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
