Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing.… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians.… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
“But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
The benefits of the constitution and laws are alike for all; and the great Elohim has given me the privilege of having… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think… — Saul Zaentz Copy Share Image
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
After graduating college in 2010, I got to work - writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does. — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's… — Owen King Copy Share Image
I like to write when things are calm - and when I'm not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
