I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want… — Clint Bowyer Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for… — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“I'm running late, but there's always time to scribble weird messages in guest signage books. Also, am I really late? The Catholic… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
But I'll never write another Missing You' again as long as I live. I hope that I'll write a good song, but… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write.… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
