In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic… — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't really outline. I just kind of know where I'm going in my head, so I'll write and discover it for… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I'd like to write about whatever is going on with me at that point of time or situations I'm - which I'm… — William Singe Copy Share Image
Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before… — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on… — Sonnia Kemmer Copy Share Image
“I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something 'great' in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I don't even think any stimulants really help writing. You talk to most guys and they say, "Hey. I wrote this." And… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this… — Huda Sharawi Copy Share Image
I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the things that happened, especially in Ireland, that you left in order to improve yourself, and… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream.… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“But why do you write?— A: I am not one of those who think with an inky pen in their hand, much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always try to write from memory, and I always try to use memory as an editor. So when I'm thinking of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
