You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ...… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“Reading is a tool. If you can't read you won't get very far in life. If you love to read you will… — Evan Hensley-Reano Copy Share Image
“Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just… — Kate L. Turabian Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
“To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you… — Jean-Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close,… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an… — Steve Crocker Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it… — Michael Schiavo Copy Share Image
I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it;… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to… — Moses Malone Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't… — Dean Geyer Copy Share Image
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
