“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.'… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Dont be so satisfied with the success stories of others and how things have gone for them that you forget to write… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Adventure games are all about details - if you happen to take this one object and use it with this other object,… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You… — Jessie James Decker Copy Share Image
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
