When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something. — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“If I had a clear vision, none of my books would be what they are. I've got to let the characters show… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I… — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever… — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
I didn't really feel like I fit any of the parts. You either have to be this crazy beautiful supermodel lady, or… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image