It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine.… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
It was very important to me when I was writing 'Teaches of Peaches' that I didn't mention I was going through a… — Peaches Copy Share Image
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
It's really important when we're writing our opinions to be transparent about what our decision method in the case is and how… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
