I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if… — Dionne Bromfield Copy Share Image
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen… — Cherrelle Copy Share Image
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
