Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“We lie to ourselves in many ways; we write down only what we want to understand and what we want to see.” — Heidi W. Durrow Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
This is war. Every line is about, Who I don't wanna write about anymore. Hope you come down with something they can't… — Brand New Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or… — Gza Copy Share Image
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
