No one should be expected to do more than they can remember, which for me would be about five things at a… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading… — Claire Kent Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.'… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So,… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres,… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Your life is a book. Some have written half-way, some, three-quarter way. You have the opportunity to write and rewrite the book… — Nike Campbell-Fatoki Copy Share Image
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the… — Gardner Dozois Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines,… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie,… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
