Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'… — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine.… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them.… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them,… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to… — Nas Copy Share Image
Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book.… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When you're given the assignment to write, for example, 'Spider-Man,' the concept, characters and environment are all laid out for you. Everything… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine.… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
