The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
“He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting… — Craig Bierko Copy Share Image
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic with students. And say that there's a good chance that they're not going to get a creative… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters.… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
“It’s imperative that writing consists of not living up to your own taste. Of leaving the world behind so you can hold… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on… — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate,… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Character and Plot...Character and Plot Some writers have it and some do not This I'll tell you Brother You can't have one… — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. — George Murray Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable” — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
This is one of the biggest reasons I'm a writer: I love creating worlds but also discovering worlds and getting into the… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
