Down and Quote by Alessia Cara

“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Here's a random idea, just out of the blue. How about you fall for me, As hard as I fell for you?

— Xuan Ta

When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it down and…

— Brian Posehn

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so…

— Elliott Colla

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were…

— Alice Munro

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have,…

— Donald Richie

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell