I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. — Jonathan Brandis Copy Share Image
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to. — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
Every time you write something, you say much more than you think you say. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't… — Dean Geyer Copy Share Image
“I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack” — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I… — Ludovico Einaudi 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
Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through. — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad. — David Liss Copy Share Image
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are. — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image