Quotes of: I-write Keyword

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Khaled Hosseini

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

Krysten Ritter

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.

Ken Spillman

I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.

Lauren DeStefano

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Lou Doillon

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

Lydia Davis

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Laura Hillenbrand

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

Lee Hall

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Lisi Harrison

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

Lily Rabe

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Lee Siegel

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

Lisa Unger

As long as I'm able to actually maintain a career where I can write full-time, I'll be thrilled.

Lauren Weisberger

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Len Wein

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Michael Connelly

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

Max Minghella

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

Ryan Murphy

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Ruth Ozeki

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Richard Russo