Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
It's aggravating to me when you meet people that are just... you know, there's a difference between wanting to be an actor… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and… — Bryan Lourd Copy Share Image
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.” — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. — Michael Bergdahl Copy Share Image
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all. — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.” — F.D. Crandall Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I know very well that one cannot become an author by just writing a book. — Navya Nair Copy Share Image
In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
