I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it… — Etan Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have.… — John Goodman 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
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 write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less… — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who lives my art. It's not that I want to necessarily do it: it's that I have… — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
I just write verses. I don't write all day long. When I have something that needs to be said, I just write… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
