Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
“Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending,… — Brooklyn Hudson Copy Share Image
“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood… — H.N. Sieverding Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone,… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“He is a Londoner, too, in his writings. In his familiar letters he displays a rambling urban vivacity, a tendency to to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever… — John Searles Copy Share Image
If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure in life is 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' I watch them all - old, new - I don't care. Despite… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your… — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
“What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
“To become less and transmit more, to replenish energy with wisdom - some such hope, at this more than midpoint in my… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other… — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew… — Mark Stoermer Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig." I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better…” quote by Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/brent-spiner-2999_agony_i-wanted-to-look-right-i-remember-a-revi_1430582.png)
![“[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.” quote by Nora Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/087/nora-roberts-128_desire_as-a-writer-you-have-to-have-the-three-d_2245297.jpg)
