I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum… — Slash Copy Share Image
“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book.… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which… — Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc Copy Share Image
I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“I fancy myself a writer. And writing, in its most eloquent manner, since time became a concept indoctrinated by true troglodytes, tickles… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Bully,' I was actually writing it. I was playing the beat and I was trying to write with a… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
“But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I… — Heather Frost Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
