“In writing anything to you, I always end up frustrated with the results. One reason for that is because I don't like… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things… — Ahmed Gallab Copy Share Image
You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less… — Waldo Salt Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions,… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I'm constantly at war with myself to quit goofing around, and the internet hasn't helped that any. I've learned that I have… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though,… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It’s for the love of story telling. Fame and… — R.L. Bartram Copy Share Image
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I… — Angela Aki Copy Share Image
“A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“Even when a thought springs fresh in my mind on the subway and solves an essay I’d just about abandoned. On the… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
