I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords… — Bryan Hayes Copy Share Image
Batman's not mine. He doesn't necessarily belong to me. As a character, he belongs first to the audience and second to the… — Tom King Copy Share Image
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.” — Mary Howard Copy Share Image
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Oddly, the anti-heroes of both 'The Chill' and veteran comics writer Peter Milligan's 'The Bronx Kill' share a first name, though their… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling… — William Safire Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to… — MNEK Copy Share Image
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
