When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a lot of people who can perform, but they can't write. And it's a lot of people that can write that… — Scarface Copy Share Image
I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had… — Jasmine Cresswell Copy Share Image
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song.… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean,… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work.… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up… — Dexter Holland Copy Share Image
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that. — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We only had a couple of ways for people to hate us on 'X-Files,' including still writing actual fan letters. Now people… — Jeffrey Bell Copy Share Image
People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway. — Mick Jones Copy Share Image
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
