“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you,… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,… — Donna Leon 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen.… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because you're going to end… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
“Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements… — Phyllis A. Whitney 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
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
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
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
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
