I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with 'Knuffle Bunny' by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.” — Solomon Woytowich Copy Share Image
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions;… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I hate when I'm about to write something inspirational and I puke all over my phone and have to get a new… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
“You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!” — Raouf Ayoub Copy Share Image
I'd always rather spec something and just write it. Because when you're pitching something that isn't even on a page yet, it… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing.… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
