I write well in LA, because the pressure is off and I'm surrounded by ambitious people who are really encouraging. — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.' — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
TV writers live life of well-paid, specialty prostitutes. We have a very special skill set and we occupy one of the higher… — David Simon Copy Share Image
That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's weird. I went so far away from music that I had to re-invent music again. I had to come back to… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when… — Jeremy Fisher Copy Share Image
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me.… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“I once assigned a graduate class Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life—a book I love—and one of the students said, “It’s so effing… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be… — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way… — Barry Gibb Copy Share Image
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial… — Billy West Copy Share Image
In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great… — Erich Hoeber Copy Share Image
“I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have… — Darren White Copy Share Image
