I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write.… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
“Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is war. Every line is about, Who I don't wanna write about anymore. Hope you come down with something they can't… — Brand New Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or… — Gza Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for… — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
