This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
“Seinfeld told his writers that nine was his lucky number, so he just had to go out with his ninth season.” — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there. — Craig David Copy Share Image
“Vitamin D,” Stevie said. “You need it.” “You don’t know that,” he said. “I want to eat my meat in my room… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or… — Giveon Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring… — Karen Hines Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
We write the songs that we do because that's what we like. But they are just stories - not things we actually… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
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