Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Gavin Bryars

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Carol Ann Duffy

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Christopher Darden

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

Claire Danes

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Charlotte Eriksson

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Carrie Fisher

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

Charles Krauthammer

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

Charlie Kaufman

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Christopher McQuarrie

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

Christopher Moore

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Conor McPherson

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.

Conor Oberst

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

Christina Romer

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Christopher Stocking

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

Helen Oyeyemi

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Henry Rollins

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Irvine Welsh

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Jeffrey Archer

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

James Bay

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Jimmy Buffett