“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?” — Richard Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life. — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs,… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Writing is a journey into the unknown. Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
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