Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course…

Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

— Lee Ann Womack

Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

— Mick Foley

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from…

— Annie Proulx

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

— Shirley Hazzard

People are such assholes these days it makes my jaw drop -.-

— Patience

“I want to have your baby.” She’d never seen anyone’s jaw drop before, but Sean’s did. All the color drained from his face and…

— Roxy Wilson

When you have so much history with someone you just can't close the book , you have too rip that page out and keep writing.

— Anonymous

“Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it…

— A.A. Patawaran

She makes my jaw drop in her low rise jeans, she makes my heart stop talking dirty to me.

— Anonymous

“You have the most infernal habit when anyone says the simplest thing to you, of letting your lower jaw drop and looking like a…

— PG Wodehouse

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

— Mike Rutherford

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

— Steve Martin

I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write…

— Nicole Holofcener

As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one…

— Ben Younger