I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
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Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is… — Flume Copy Share Image
“If you have talent, but no morality-monkey riding upon your back, then, of course, this is where you should stop.” — Kat Lowe Copy Share Image
I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music.… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
“writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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I definitely would love to transition into being more of a writer at some point in my career. I love playing shows… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
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“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
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Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
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Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
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Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
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