When I start writing, the first line might come from…

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were the tools you have available to write a thriller.

— Jed Mercurio

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing…

— Tom Stoppard

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect…

— Philip Rosenthal

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we…

— Stephen Fry

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

— Annie Dillard

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without…

— Walt Whitman

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what…

— Julien Green

“When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like…

— Shauna Niequist

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not…

— Elie Wiesel

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative…

— Paul Klee