Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris Copy Share Image
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of… — Victoria Laurie Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard… The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14… — Avi Copy Share Image
I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it… — Etan Cohen Copy Share Image
“I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have.… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
No one should be expected to do more than they can remember, which for me would be about five things at a… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading… — Claire Kent Copy Share Image
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.'… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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