I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
“I'm running late, but there's always time to scribble weird messages in guest signage books. Also, am I really late? The Catholic… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“Most of us would rather read than write. There is always another article to read, one more source to track down, just… — Kate L. Turabian Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ...… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
“Reading is a tool. If you can't read you won't get very far in life. If you love to read you will… — Evan Hensley-Reano Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my… — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down,… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It… — James Hampton Copy Share Image
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
