You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s,… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me. — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen. — Jason Williams Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I… — Ellen Greene Copy Share Image
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking. — Olivier Megaton Copy Share Image
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could. — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals. — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten. — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk.… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
