Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a… — Alex Wolff Copy Share Image
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly… — Jonathan Stalling Copy Share Image
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton. — David Brock Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I actually didn't believe the producers when they said, 'Joy, we're writing a movie about your life'. I was like, 'Oh, OK,… — Joy Mangano Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
