I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
“When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
