“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed." — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians.… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write —… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion… — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about what it was like to grow up in a small town, what it means to fall in… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
