I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most… — Jack Herer Copy Share Image
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love working on my own. I love working with other writers. I love working with other artists. I just think it's… — Raye Copy Share Image
“In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I've been getting tired of writing stories in the stars. Maybe we can write something in the good old Arkansas dirt. ~Holly” — Christina Coryell Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing,… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
