I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of… — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be… — David Chase Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Having an attack of self-doubt about your writing ability? Step #1 - Tell yourself - 'I'm the best damn writer there is,… — Jonathan Maas Copy Share Image
I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm quite often interested in writing and sculpture, installation, and photography, obviously, just as much as filmmaking. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,… — Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
