If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get… — Dave East Copy Share Image
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion. — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point. — Jeffrey Steele Copy Share Image
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it… — Sampha Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and… — Gza Copy Share Image
Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
There are a lot of smart people being really thoughtful and writing really interesting things, but that isn't what I want to… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work. — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
