My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company.… — Betsy Hodges Copy Share Image
“My writing is excellent. Perhaps I might call it a talent, I am quite the calligraphist. Let me write you something as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
When I was asked to write a concept for a telenovela, I didn't underestimate my non-experience in the field. — John Kani Copy Share Image
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff,… — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
“He was surprised to find how much he missed writing to her. For so many months, she'd been the person on the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image