If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from… — Adam Goldberg Copy Share Image
I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“if I wanted to be a better writer, I was the only person who could push myself to do it. It was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can… — Natalie Stein Copy Share Image
There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I've always had musicianship as a dream since I was really small. I started to take it a bit more seriously when… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced if I keep going one day I will write something decent. On very bad days I will observe that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on,… — Barbara Brooke Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best… — Peter King Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
