My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!,… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
“I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
