My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books,… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character.… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm… — Flo Rida Copy Share Image
I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie.… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write -… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
