Hurt Quote by Shirley Jackson

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

— Honore de Balzac

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you…

— Alice Mattison

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player,…

— Stephen Sondheim

Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing,…

— Mike McCready

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for…

— Virginia Woolf

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write… The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal…

— Tanith Lee

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have…

— Betty Smith

“As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.”

— Donna Lynn Hope