Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right,… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary...I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
