If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Write your script with the most adventurous characters imaginable. Tell others, get out your comfort zone, don’t worry about what they may… — Joseph S. Spence Sr Copy Share Image
I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My son's always saying, 'Pop, I ain't being egotistical, but nobody else can do it like you.' And I say it's not… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The other thing you can do is write a strong personal essay which lets admissions people inside your life, your heart, and… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I… — Louise Erdrich 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what… — Michael Erard Copy Share Image
