You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If… — C. Day Lewis Copy Share Image
Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that,… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest… — Darnell Lamont Walker 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
I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it. — Scott Haze Copy Share Image
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it. — Chazz Palminteri 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
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
