You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that… — Ziad Doueiri Copy Share Image
I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that.… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Because it was my first DC project, I wanted to make sure that if I only got one issue out of it,… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I wish someone else would write a book that clearly and persuasively articulated why women's reproductive rights are so important to this… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow -… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
In the past, you would take the time to write a love letter and you would think about what you wanted to… — Haider Ackermann Copy Share Image
I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have the most exciting life to write. If you have a story to tell, tell it; or better… — J.Y. Barris Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
