I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either.… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced,… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer.… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I've been working on. It's like being asked… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't think I'm a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
