I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together by Scotch… — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a… — Troy Donahue Copy Share Image
I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in,… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate,… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel. — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
