Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

Anne McCaffrey

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Lauren Myracle

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.

Wole Soyinka

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Beverly Cleary

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Kimberly Willis Holt

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Trevor Moore

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

Candace Camp

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Hallie Ephron

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

Marianne Williamson

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Sheryl Crow

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Susan Orlean

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

Anna Kendrick

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

Cecily Strong

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

Guy Ritchie

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Shaun Cassidy

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

F. Sionil Jose

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Lincoln Child