You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen.… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song.… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home. — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like. — Estelle Fanta Swaray Copy Share Image
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room… — Vince Clarke Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play,… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. — Glenn Howerton Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
