I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your… — Leon Nacson Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out,… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it,… — Lauren London Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do.… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Whatever I write is coming out of me naturally. There's nothing to prove. Everything has been proven already. — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other… — Will Self Copy Share Image
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really… — Todd Newton Copy Share Image
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
