There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
The one thing I'm terrified of trying to write about is sex. I mean my God, my wife might read it or… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather,… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more:… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think of my life as a great big story. Each silly thing I do is a new paragraph. And each… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep… — James Salter Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
