There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I think there's sort of an extra oomph with the younger people coming up. They're writing. They're communicating. They're sharing, and they… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember,… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer love the depths of the night? Because there, he doesn't have to tell anything or anyone to be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think then I write, give my thoughts a light, begin pondering about life. Break it down then roll up the lyrics,… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image