I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say,… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
I want to write my daughter something about how much I love her and what I would want to say to her… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity,… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of… — Jason Spezza Copy Share Image
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I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“We lie to ourselves in many ways; we write down only what we want to understand and what we want to see.” — Heidi W. Durrow Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
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