I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will… — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The moment a writer begins to pay more attention to how to write than what to write, he begins to drift away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Normal, day-to-day things inspire you to write. I try to travel and chill, and go out and enjoy the outdoors. That makes… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I write, therefore i am, and therefore do not need other's writing!” — Rebecca Jane Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. — L. J. Smith Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
