My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.
Terry PratchettI don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
Wayne DyerI don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
Paulo CoelhoWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George OrwellI was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma BombeckI always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.
Wayne DyerIt seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.
AuroraFable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamSome people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
Frank OceanWhen I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
The WeekndOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul AusterI have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.
George W. BushWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt VonnegutFor a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.
Alice MunroI want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
Alice MunroWriting and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
J. K. RowlingWriting means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Paulo CoelhoIf you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
J. K. RowlingThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
Jerry SeinfeldAnd all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander PopeWrite in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Ho Chi MinhLearning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George LucasAnimation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt DisneyI was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.
J. K. RowlingMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiI don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘
Maya AngelouI just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
Beyonce KnowlesPoetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Taylor SwiftIn Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Will RogersIf a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest HemingwayI’ll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.
David BowieFacebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.
Mark ZuckerbergLove is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray BradburyAt first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
Kendrick LamarI don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.
Henry KissingerA myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan WattsEach age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry AdamsThe writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl MarxFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayI have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
Taylor SwiftI intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.
Nipsey HussleDigital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
George LucasI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James BaldwinSince I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki MurakamiThe way I define ‚intelligent design‘ is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
George LucasI kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Charles Bukowski‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘
C. S. LewisI’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
Anthony BourdainIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyOnce I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
Haruki MurakamiGood writing is like a windowpane.
George OrwellThe discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
John SteinbeckIf I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Anne FrankI don’t do research. I never have.
Ray BradburyBroadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill