I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself,… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“She once had an idea that perhaps if she dreamt of him enough, or wrote about him enough times, he would leave… — Vrinda Pendred Copy Share Image
I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an… — Odeya Rush Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
One night, I just woke up and I went, 'Killing Jesus.' And I believe, because I'm a Catholic, that comes from the… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in… — Bernard Schaffer Copy Share Image
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of… — Feist Copy Share Image
“Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book.… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.' — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis. — Val Guest Copy Share Image
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.” — Zach Savich Copy Share Image
I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The first song I ever wrote was called 'Because I Love You.' I was very inspired by the Spice Girls and they… — MO Copy Share Image
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
