I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself.… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the… — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation.… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
“Most things I pen for you remain unheeded or unheard as they, like feathers, float in the wind to be lost forever… — Virginia Alison Copy Share Image
Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down. — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend,… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time. — Paulo Coelho 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
