I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music… — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Ljudi ne provedu život u osrednjosti zato što su prosečni. Oni se tako ponašaju jer su zaboravili ko su zaista. Prihvatili su… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing… — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We're really trying to make movies for TV. Producers and writers are taking risks that they weren't in the past. — Philip Winchester Copy Share Image
Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying that’s all I have floating around inside my brain, as a writer, there are so many possibilities waiting for… — S.D. Neeve Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in 'Annie Laurie', but I can't recall that it… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“I thought I'd sit write down and right you a letter. Just words on paper to last you for a lifetime. But… — Nick Moccia Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
