Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“This is your moment now. Go for it. LIVE. Choose to be happy. Choose the life you always wanted. Never settle for… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
“Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase,… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing,… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before… — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Zen holds that the faith must be based not on the dead Scriptures, but on living facts, that one must turn over… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
I think the writers of 'Community' have moved on from my character. I'm pretty sure. I would love to go back on.… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then,… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
