I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me… — Rain Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make… — Estelle Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then… — Banks Copy Share Image
Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful.… — Banks Copy Share Image
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I've said from the start that I'm not going to write kiddie sitcoms. — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually. — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. — Violante Placido Copy Share Image
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer,… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
