End Quote by Declan McKenna

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and…

— Perfume Genius

I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But…

— Woody Allen

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

— Jennifer Egan

“There is no end to writing, I think, no end to the project of rescue." --Sofia Samatar, from "Fallow," in her collection, Tender”

— Sofia Samatar

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

“That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism…

— Samuel Johnson

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

— Samuel Johnson

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end…

— Brian Helgeland

“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after…

— Lorrie Moore

After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that…

— Roger Zelazny