If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with…

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

— Rian Johnson

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

— Gustave Flaubert

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

— George Balanchine

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide…

— Steve Martin

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks or months…

— Robin Sloan

“There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books eat ice…

— Colleen Hoover

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds…

— Mary Stewart

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you…

— Anne Lamott

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up…

— Shirley Jackson