I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt,… — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
That's my success, if you want to call it that: I've gained confidence about what I write and what I do. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live. — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it.… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily… — Lawrence Weschler Copy Share Image
“It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
