I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise. — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't understand people who write blogs and have children. You can't stop in the middle of bathtime and say: 'I'm just… — Michael McIntyre Copy Share Image