The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission. — Passenger Copy Share Image
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write.… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“Don’t rely on your memory. Write down every item that needs your attention.” — Damon Zahariades Copy Share Image
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it. — John Prine Copy Share Image
I can't write my films in La-La Land. I don't know how to write for my characters like that. — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
I don't know where I belong, I don't know where I went wrong, but I can write a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
