I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“New Rule: The person who sat in my seat on the flight before me and could not finish the People magazine crossword… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most… — Sampha Copy Share Image
“ Nebraska will transcend Springsteen, will immortalise him as a writer, because of what it says about civilisation in the range of… — David Burke Copy Share Image
I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm quite often interested in writing and sculpture, installation, and photography, obviously, just as much as filmmaking. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of… — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
“A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you. — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
