You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
“If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.” — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart... — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--… — Cara Swann Copy Share Image
I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“The class, on the other hand, buzzed and hummed with the anticipated pleasure of writing it up, one day. They were vindicated.… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
