I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter,… — Lari White Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his… — Norman Lindsay Copy Share Image
Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said,… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I decided to write Leadership BS because I was irritated by the hypocrisy in the leadership literature and the fact that many… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting… — Nora DeLoach Copy Share Image
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Writer and tequila drinker living in the heart of wine country. It's wine, people, not the ejaculate of Christ. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New lyric writers have become an asset for me. I gave Naseer Faraz a break in 'Aetbaar' and he was up for… — Rajesh Roshan Copy Share Image
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind -… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think, because I didn't think of myself getting into writing and production since I was younger, I could get bored of… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
“A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time... If you… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began… — Charles Martin Smith Copy Share Image
“Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of… — Michael P. Anderson Copy Share Image
