I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that… — Manfred Mann Copy Share Image
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
“What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory.… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book to fill a blind spot in our history, to remind us that outsider amateur game-makers creating personal games… — Anna Anthropy Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“He was completely detached from every thing except the story he was writing and he was living in it as he built… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When Jamie left for basic training I knew exactly what I had to do. Of course, I knew what it feels like… — Noah Galloway Copy Share Image
“Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Oath' for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she… — Becky G Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.' — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
