“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song. — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want — Mike Gatting Copy Share Image
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing. — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
