I believe if you write it down it's more likely to stick in the memory. — T. J. Watt Copy Share Image
“We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.” — Lori Jamison Rog Copy Share Image
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today. — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Books feel more intimate. And the people who go out of their way to read your writings, are initially more open to… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“ My name is David, but most peole call me Popcorn. I write breathtaking adventures. I write the way most people think.… — Popcorn Diablo Copy Share Image
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.” — Sonia Rumzi Copy Share Image
“I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to. — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“I try to spend as much time writing about new worlds as I do reading and watching them.” — C.E. Wilson Copy Share Image
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.” — Ted Atoka Copy Share Image
When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image