Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No,… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write… — Steve Howey Copy Share Image
If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can't write my own music.… — Jamie Blackley Copy Share Image
Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It… — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning. — Kaki King Copy Share Image
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
