When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting. This is how I have come to understand… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press… — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
