The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing.… — Rosemary Daniell Copy Share Image
I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
You're saying it wasn't your insecurities but in actuality, that's what made you leave. Now although the relationship is dead, I can't… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country.… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one. — Judith Rascoe Copy Share Image
Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I accomplished a lot in 2017 that I'd dreamt of: a late night set, TV writing gig, a speaking movie role. — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I hope to write someday and thats even more terrifying than performing. You dont just entertain the audience, you give them little… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
