You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority. — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
