I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about Jews in Montana, so I went there by plane and bus, only to discover that there are… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I could have been a better mother. My children assure me it was fine. But when you are running to catch the… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present. — Keifer Thompson Copy Share Image
It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press… — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too. — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
