Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“ If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i… — Drunk-On-Writing Copy Share Image
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T.… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
If you're struggling and you just get a sense when you're writing that you might be running out of ideas, that's when… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“wife, Halpern, a writer and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, profile a Bhutanese refugee community in New Hampshire (p. 25) for” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to… — Giveon Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else. — Tana French Copy Share Image
I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved… — Cheryl B. Klein Copy Share Image
We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
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