Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that.… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you… — John Oates Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
“Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn’t a hot dog eating contest. You’re not being judged… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
We all want to make money and have a good life. But if your passion is writing, and you want to write… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that… — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
“What they held was already inside me, and together we could get away. And standing over the smoldering pile of paper and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's time to take your life back from the people that are causing you pain and making you unhappy. This is your… — Prince kumar Copy Share Image
I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
