That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Bad things should be written in the sand and Good things carved in stone so that they could be remembered. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line… — Lance Wubbels Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“I still write so as not to feel alone in the world, but now I type. What is lost in the process… — Cory Taylor Copy Share Image
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to… — Giveon Copy Share Image
I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i… — Drunk-On-Writing Copy Share Image
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Write Something To Suit Yourself, Many People Will Like It… And Write Something To Suit Everybody, Scarcely Anyone Will Care For It. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I have been searching for who I am for so long, when I write I found out who I am, I find… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
“She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, “Remember this… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
