Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it… — Mike Ross 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
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that… — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“LEACH: You write by hand and, famously, do not own a computer. Is there some kind of physical pleasure to be taken… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy… — B. J. Novak 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
