I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want… — Clint Bowyer Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for… — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make… — Estelle Copy Share Image
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say,… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I want to write my daughter something about how much I love her and what I would want to say to her… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity,… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of… — Jason Spezza 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
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
“When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway… — Willard R. Espy Copy Share Image
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“We lie to ourselves in many ways; we write down only what we want to understand and what we want to see.” — Heidi W. Durrow Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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