All Quotes

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
‐‐ Kris Allen

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
‐‐ Lake Bell

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
‐‐ Michael LeBoeuf

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
‐‐ Oscar Hijuelos

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
‐‐ O. R. Melling

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.
‐‐ Tyler Joseph

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
‐‐ Sean Durkin

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
‐‐ Kiran Desai

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
‐‐ Keren Ann

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
‐‐ Martha Grimes

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
‐‐ Natalie Goldberg

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
‐‐ Robert Rankin

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people often feel a huge distance between their own lives and the lives of these social-change heroes. But the Panthers were flawed-up people from the streets, so it's easier to identify with them.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.
‐‐ John Banville

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
‐‐ Troy Perry

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
‐‐ Duffy Daugherty

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
‐‐ John Madden

When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.
‐‐ Tom Rath

When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials.
‐‐ Tucker Max

When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
‐‐ Shane Filan

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
‐‐ Nick Cassavetes

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
‐‐ Vin Diesel

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
‐‐ Cory Booker

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
‐‐ Chip Esten