I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
“Something about stringing words together until you get them right is magical; that something is why I love to write.” — Paul Keene Copy Share Image
I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me. — Zack Greinke Copy Share Image
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's… — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To… — André Brink Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Write with your heart, not your head. Brains tend to ooze out of your ears and nose when things get intense. Then… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like,… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If… — Michael Trevino Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side… — Eve Copy Share Image
“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns… — Kim Krizan Copy Share Image
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,'… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began. — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
