The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Drafts would be written out in his hunched cursive, the words growing fatter as his pencil dulled against the page.” — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location - somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like… — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
Growing up, you don't see the writing on the wall. Passing by, moving straight ahead you knew it all. But maybe sometimes… — John Parr Copy Share Image
[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream,… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Improv is a fun thing to do on stage with others, sketch comedy is a great way to showcase your writing and… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I am gonna write a book about my life, that way at least I will get paid for people being in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing… — Jacobo Timmerman Copy Share Image
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nabokov began writing 'Lolita' before he ever knew of Florence 'Sally' Horner, an 11-year-old who was kidnapped from Camden, New Jersey, in… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing,… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If you don't hate your darlings a little by the time they go to press, you haven't edited them enough.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better… — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
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