I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
“Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story… — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image