I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful.… — Banks Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to… — Casey James Copy Share Image
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course.… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed… — Tom Noonan Copy Share Image
I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,'… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I really love 'Real Housewives.' It's like the, you know, comedy stuff that's, like, intentionally funny. Like, I love 'Nathan for You,'… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there,… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
