I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me… — Rain Copy Share Image
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician.… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot… — Mirah Copy Share Image
It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success. — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“It is better to write in order to find what you are than to write to find what price others put on… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship. — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
We have a book that we just write down what the kids say. You forget...and when you read the book you remember… — Mark Harmon Copy Share Image
I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean,… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
