Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I… — Christian Serratos Copy Share Image
I loved the writing process. I would love to write more. And I'd like to do a roundtable, like 'The View' or… — Andi Dorfman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me,… — Ron White Copy Share Image
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I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
“I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
You’d better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
“I’m 30, it’s Christmas, and I’m a writer without a job. I sit here engulfed in a furious fit of frustration. My… — Josh Mitchell Copy Share Image
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing. — Dreezy Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy,… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
My goal growing up was to write a book. That's why I studied English and creative writing in college, and that is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do… — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
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