Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and styl...

James Gunn

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban scho...

Jonathan Kozol

I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my hea...

Toni Morrison

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel, .

Toni Morrison

I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarn...

Willie Nelson

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success...

Louise Penny

How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten l...

Jennifer Lawrence

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

Nicola Griffith

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love t...

Robert Crais

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because,...

Bill Callahan

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in ...

The Conquest of Happiness

I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.

A Parallel Life

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

Quentin Tarantino

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Kris Allen

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

Ian Mckellen

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

Grant Heslov

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

Graeme Simsion

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Darren Criss

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Tori Spelling

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

A. R. Rahman