If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing. — Tom Curren Copy Share Image
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it. — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible.… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
