I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“How is your writing going, Michael?" "Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.” — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
“It's not interesting stuff that they're making up and writing, and that's why they're going down.” — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.” — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly -… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Instead of writing down what you’re going to do (chances are you’ve been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you're already… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
