I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do,… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
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The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have… — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
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I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character.… — David Rasche Copy Share Image
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project,… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
“What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?” — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that… — Matthew Friedberger Copy Share Image
I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking… — James Young Copy Share Image
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Turkey are the independent people. We are our own nation in this world - a nation of writers, journalists, artists, moviemakers, and… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
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Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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