Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie,… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
No matter what situation I'm in, I always feel better writing something in the middle of whatever emotion I'm feeling. So it… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks. — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys.… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative. — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
Twitter: any time I write on my page they call it a tweet.. but you facebook how do they call your writings? — Elormie Copy Share Image
“If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you watch wrestling like I do, you watch for the wrestling. There's so much talking. There's some 'twit' back there with… — Bret Hart Copy Share Image
“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
Every time that I write, whether it's journaling or songwriting, I feel better after. There's a wave of relief and gratitude. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
