I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would… — Steve Saint Copy Share Image
What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people,… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as… — James Rumford Copy Share Image
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“If I can change the world at least 1% to peace, truth and altruistic lovingkindness through my writing, my life will not… — Mark F. Kalita Copy Share Image
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
There's a lot of times where we'll come up with something on the spot, and the writers will catch it in the… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
