Both back when I was acting and now that I’m writing, I’ve always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing. – Tana French
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? – Steven Saylor
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
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss. – Stanley Hauerwas
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. – Sue Grafton
Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, ‘Oh, that’s what this is all about,’ and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven’t solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it. – Sarah Kay
So many people think that if you’re writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you’re dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order. – V. E. Schwab
It’s a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it’s a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I’m writing the book in English, in French. It’s not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that’s the story of my life! – Tatiana de Rosnay
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. – Tom Glazer
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist’s work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style. – Warren Ellis
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other – that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again. – Shane Carruth
I don’t write political plays in the sense that I’m writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say ‘Well, here’s the point.’ – Tony Kushner
I don’t aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven’t had a chance to do that. – Stephen Root
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh
Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it. – Wole Soyinka
I’ve always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It’s always been a passion of mine. – Zoe Lister-Jones
In 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 Rogers
I made straight A’s and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role. – Sandra Brown
My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant. – Sarah Hall
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe – that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. – Wietse Venema
After ‘A Suitable Boy,’ I didn’t write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: ‘I ought to start writing.’ But I can never force myself to write. – Vikram Seth