I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers — Ryne Sandberg Copy Share Image
I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me. — Caroline Wozniacki Copy Share Image
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
“If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“To all those whom seek the iron words of the community: if your book is good, it will stand on its own.… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
