All Quotes

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.
‐‐ Mikhail Bulgakov

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.
‐‐ Donald Fagen

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'
‐‐ John Searles

My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
‐‐ Sue Miller

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
‐‐ Kim Elizabeth

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
‐‐ George Steiner

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
‐‐ Amy Tan

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
‐‐ Emma McLaughlin

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
‐‐ Kathe Koja

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
‐‐ Jean Craighead George

My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions.
‐‐ Tracie Peterson

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
‐‐ Sarah Addison Allen

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
‐‐ Cynthia Voigt

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.
‐‐ Jess Walter

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.
‐‐ Tracy Chevalier

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
‐‐ Sam Tsui

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
‐‐ David Rabe

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
‐‐ Bruce Coville

My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.
‐‐ Toni Tennille

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.
‐‐ Sandra Lee

My years on 'Family Matters' were precious to me. During the run of the show, I saw many births, deaths, weddings... The actual family on the show became my family.
‐‐ Reginald VelJohnson

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.
‐‐ Paul Shaffer

My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
‐‐ Clive Davis

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.
‐‐ Henry Grunwald

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
‐‐ Ty Burrell

My younger brother Avishai was my first influence. He picked up the trumpet, and I listened to him. The way he played - with the half valves and the smears - made me want to play like him.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.
‐‐ Stephen Elop

My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.
‐‐ Robyn Lively

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
‐‐ Meg Rosoff

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
‐‐ Judy Woodruff

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
‐‐ Brian d'Arcy James

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg