I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting… — Crissi Langwell Copy Share Image
“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
Yaknow you gotta stay up with current s**t, b. I watch the news. I read a lot. All that s**t. Everything helps.… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to start writing if you have something to write about, rather than staring at a blank screen thinking about nothing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I've had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, 'How do I start putting my music… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.'… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start… — Skeme Copy Share Image
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
