I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes… — David X. Cohen Copy Share Image
When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play… — Tim Rutili Copy Share Image
It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
“Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you’re trying to write. Just do it. When it’s over… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Bully,' I was actually writing it. I was playing the beat and I was trying to write with a… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I was trying to write new music, but there was nothing I was reacting against. It turned out 'Worlds' itself became something… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
There's plenty of times I sit down, I'm trying to write, and that feeling never comes, so I just don't do anything. — Alex G Copy Share Image
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
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