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
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
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
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for… — John Madden Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed,… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since.… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
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Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had… — Mary Roach 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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