There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading Copy Share Image
“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”… — C. S. Lakin Copy Share Image
My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
“Write down important formulas, facts, definitions, and/or keywords in the margin first so you won't worry about” — Jawanza Kunjufu Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you… — D. J. MacHale 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
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for… — Ariel Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.” — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
