Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was…

— Ken Thompson

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write,…

— Scott Berkun

For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on napkins and…

— Tommy Wiseau

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for…

— Ru Freeman

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who…

— Louis L'Amour

“But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I can't imagine…

— Heather Frost

“I fancy myself a writer. And writing, in its most eloquent manner, since time became a concept indoctrinated by true troglodytes, tickles my dong;…

— Dave Matthes

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots.…

— Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the…

— Hugh Grant

“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing…

— Chuck Klosterman

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

— Doris Lessing

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if…

— Edward Albee

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them,…

— Tennessee Williams

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in…

— Kathy Reichs