Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note. — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing. — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, I need to fully immerse myself in a script to the point where I'm literally locking myself away for weeks… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else. — Mika Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
