Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.” — Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I usually just write down what I'm doing and how I felt. How I felt if I'm skating fast, compared to if… — Shani Davis Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
When you're a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you're kind of really focused on… — Greg Poehler Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write… — Morley Copy Share Image
I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press? — Sydney Schanberg Copy Share Image
I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me,… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
“I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done… — Sue Gardner Copy Share Image
There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write. — Jamie Hector 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
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be… — Gareth Southgate 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
