Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging… — Richard Due Copy Share Image
When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own… — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Charles Brower Copy Share Image
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
All the things that served me as a musician serve me as a cook. Being an artist is about communicating something deep… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage… — Tift Merritt Copy Share Image
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's quite different writing for films and for myself. You have to help guide a scene along emotionally, and the wrong approach… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener.… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying you can’t do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn’t going… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face… — Henri de Regnier Copy Share Image
The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
