I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy. — John Caples Copy Share Image
In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending. — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked… — Roger Glover Copy Share Image
It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears,… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could.… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
