I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka,… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so crowded… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things. — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it. — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents. — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines. — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything.… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
