Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
“Take some time to write down what you see your children enjoying, what you see them learning and so on. However,” — Pam Laricchia Copy Share Image
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book! — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement.… — Paul Muni Copy Share Image
“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be… — Chuck Cannon Copy Share Image
I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff. — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
