I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
Bonnie Hunt
FearThinkWriteSomethingAble
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
John Irving
IgnoranceStartLongYouWriteHead
My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.
Sharon Van Etten
HappyMeMomSongStartWrite
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves.
Kameron Hurley
MeWritingWriteThingsClearJust
I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
HistoryWriteAlwaysJerusalem
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
Louise Leakey
IntelligenceLanguageDownWriteUs
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
David Walliams
LoveBookYouIntimacyWriteOver
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
Jenny Han
YouHandWayIntimacyNeverWrite
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
Alistair MacLeod
TodayThinkLiteratureCreateWrite
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
BestJobYouWriteVoicesShow
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
C. Day Lewis
MindDownDeskWriteFirstNeed
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.
Rohinton Mistry
DetailWorldDetailsYouWriteReal
I write what I want to write.
Jorja Smith
WantWriteI Write
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
Brad Paisley
MeSongGuitarImpressWriteLike
I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.
Robert Lopez
FeelWriteSeenI Feel LikeOnly
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
Shawn Mendes
TimeSongChangesWriteApproach
I started going on YouTube and studying everybody who was super popular, from Taylor Swift to Beyonce to Michael Jackson to Chris Brown, just everybody... That's what helped me find my voice and helped me find how I write songs, just doing covers.
Kane Brown
MeVoiceDoingFindYouTubeWrite
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil
WorkGreatBestWriteAboveBecause
Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.
Luciano Vincenzoni
MeLongYouKnowMoreWrite
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
China Mieville
BookTryWriteInfluencesMost
I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'
Jenny Lewis
LoveFeelYouPlaceNowWrite
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.
Wole Soyinka
SpecialWritePropagandaEncourage
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
Amy Winehouse
FamilyHumanWriteGirlfriendsSongs
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
A. A. Milne
ChildrenI AmBookWillWriteFirst
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