My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“He is the monster they don’t know how to write stories about. You cannot trust him.” The” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. — Don Murray Copy Share Image
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad.… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman,… — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No… — Gail Sher Copy Share Image
I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
They need to have some kind of presence, they need to have star appeal. People need to like them. I am a… — Irv Gotti Copy Share Image
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Janet Murray’s book Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace is a spirited and unrelentingly optimistic defense of new… — Wheeler J_Robinson Copy Share Image
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers.… — Jillian Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image
In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not. — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA. — Joshua Ostrander Copy Share Image
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
