Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson 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
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as… — John Legend Copy Share Image
If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less… — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or… — Meghan Markle Copy Share Image
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I… — Aesha K Shah Copy Share Image
I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear… — Max D. Adams Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across… — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to… — Eugenia Vela Copy Share Image
