Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. — Ashanti Copy Share Image
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
If u really love someone write them on your heart not on a piece of paper — Courtney Hood Copy Share Image
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day.… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image