All Quotes

I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.
‐‐ Josh Silver

I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads even before they start shooting, which I respect. They finish their work on time. Being a disciplinarian myself, this suits my style.
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

I like working with the public, and I like that it's really hard work.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

I like working with women who own their own power.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
‐‐ Patti Scialfa

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
‐‐ Dave Attell

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
‐‐ Victoria Wood

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
‐‐ Tana French

I like writing about biology, not doing it.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

I like writing about friends.
‐‐ Julie Garwood

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
‐‐ Halsey

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
‐‐ Joan Lingard

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.
‐‐ Lisi Harrison

I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.
‐‐ Kirsten Vangsness

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
‐‐ Tanith Lee

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.
‐‐ Diane Warren

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.
‐‐ Gbenga Akinnagbe

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
‐‐ Rob Reiner

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
‐‐ Fran Drescher

I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
‐‐ Kerry Greenwood

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

I like writing, but it really can be a struggle for me.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.
‐‐ Charles Soule

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
‐‐ Paul Buchheit

I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.
‐‐ Chris Wooding

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.
‐‐ Thomas Mallon

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

I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.
‐‐ John Tesh

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
‐‐ Edgar Meyer

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

I like writing historical fiction.
‐‐ Philippa Gregory

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
‐‐ Elizabeth McGovern

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
‐‐ Jackee Harry

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.
‐‐ Jody Hill

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
‐‐ Ben Gibbard

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
‐‐ Tom Conti