Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. — Patricia Highsmith 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
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
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
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
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
I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books and… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's… — Sharon Jones 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
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
“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
In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
This is war. Every line is about, Who I don't wanna write about anymore. Hope you come down with something they can't… — Brand New Copy Share Image
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or… — Gza Copy Share Image
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
