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
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern 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
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.” — Slicktor Victor Robinson Copy Share Image
Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think… — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'… — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
