When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling afghanistanblowbrain Change image and share on social
When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books. Roald Dahl animalbookcharacter share on social
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it. E. L. Doctorow bookcriticallyfind Change image and share on social
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it. Lauren Conrad backbookenjoy Change image and share on social
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance. Oscar Hijuelos ambianceatmospherecall Change image and share on social
When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view. Margaret Atwood complicateconsistlife Change image and share on social
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels. John Green basementbookcommunity share on social
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air. Leslie Jones airsituationsketch Change image and share on social
When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people. Michael Masser peoplesongthing Change image and share on social
When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you. J. Michael Straczynski bitlearnmonth Change image and share on social