For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press… — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you… — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,… — Christian Kane 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
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
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
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
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
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
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting. This is how I have come to understand… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to… — Amy Bloom 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
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
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
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'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
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 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
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
