I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got.… — Alvah Bessie Copy Share Image
I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible,… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard - it's so hard and frustrating and annoying and takes a lot of time. I wish that we… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on… — Jeanette Michelle Copy Share Image
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part.… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that… — Matthew Shultz Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do,… — Francine Chiar Copy Share Image
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If I plan to write, I won't be able to write anything good. I just need to kind of jam and let… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an… — Gustave Flaubert 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 was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band.… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!),… — Ken Hill Copy Share Image
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive,… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's… — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
