I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I think the closest thing I can come to defining what that vital thing is for me - is that there's a… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Second, writing is dangerous for philosophy—and for serious scholarly practice in general. It’s not because writing breaks from its origins as Plato… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
As the writer, The Architect, I am, In the moment, Caught, In the great flow, Of me, You, Us. I write, Express,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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