I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
What I write is all from my imagination. Fact is, I haven't had time to experience all that, but that doesn't mean… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“A scene will not be vivid if the writer gives too few details to stir and guide the reader's imagination; neither will… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“ Chapter 1 . He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
First song I write, me go to my mother, and she say, 'Write love songs.' She's one of the oldest, so she's… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Never before had she seen such writers. They were impossibly vain, but quite openly so, as if thereby fulfilling a duty. Some… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline.… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“When I write an story, I start with one true thing – a memory, an image, a sensation – then I try… — David Surface Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image