It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

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