I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,'… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“Write like you are the last person on earth; like no one will ever read your story. Tell the story YOU want… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be. — John Searles Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. — Richard Price Copy Share Image
