Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

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