Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years. — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATH Conventions bleed my soul squeeze me old wear me grey like a headstone in… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My grandmother passed away before I could get to know her. She had an interest in films and writing. She wrote two… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image