Candace Bushnell
Related I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and thin... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT OCTAVIA BUTLER TOM LEHRER JODI PICOULT I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old. OLIVIA D'ABO AVRIL LAVIGNE I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether i... DAN FOGLER KHALED HOSSEINI BRIE LARSON I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books... PATRICIA POLACCO ELMORE LEONARD Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write somethi... LAUREN MILLER MACAULAY CULKIN DAVID MCCULLOUGH LYNN COADY ALBERT FINNEY JENA MALONE I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc... FLOYD SKLOOT I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing. TIM LAHAYE When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by... TROY DUFFY I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ... KARRINE STEFFANS CHARLES BUKOWSKI 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW HARLAN COBEN TOM CLANCY When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing... ADAM RAPP CAMILA CABELLO I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD GRAHAM SWIFT LIAM GALLAGHER I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start... MATTHEW GOODE TED DEKKER DIANA GABALDON I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. ZACK SNYDER Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's n... GEORGE EZRA I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I j... CASSADEE POPE KELLEY ARMSTRONG DAVID BOWIE I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH EDDIE VAN HALEN To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ... JAMES HORNER I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. ... SUSAN BARKER A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. GRANT ACHATZ If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any ... MELISSA ROSENBERG Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?&#... RAELYNN Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based ... MATTHEW MCGRORY There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists ... ART MALIK I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff th... ERROL MORRIS In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr... MARIA SEMPLE I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ... TED BELL I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON LUCINDA WILLIAMS ALICE MUNRO WASHED OUT JIMI HENDRIX When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'... RALPH PETERS 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I wa... JAMES GANDOLFINI I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked a... ADAM RICKITT VICTORIA AVEYARD It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk... MALLORY ORTBERG LUKE BRYAN I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became ... KAREN ELSON The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's alwa... JERRY POURNELLE NEIL LABUTE It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which... SUSAN ISAACS VINCE GILL DAN BROWN I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And... DAN GILROY JUNOT DIAZ I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, bu... KEM NUNN I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE BARRY EISLER WHIT STILLMAN LYLE LOVETT I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr... NATE RUESS BILLY BEANE ERICA JONG KAGE BAKER For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL DAVID CRONENBERG I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ... AL YANKOVIC I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy ... ZACHARY KNIGHTON 'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off.... CATHERINE TATE I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that i... MELISSA ROSENBERG I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol... TED CHIANG There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else... GARRY MARSHALL I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was thi... ALLISON SCHROEDER STEVEN SPIELBERG I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. BEVERLY CLEARY The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa... LANCE BURTON TOM CLANCY I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit ... JUSTIN VERNON I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'H... ERIC NYLUND I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO GERALDINE BROOKS HUNTER HAYES Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to... B.O.B KRISTEN STEWART
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st... 
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about somet... 
Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ... 
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over... 
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you... 
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind... 
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you... 
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I ... 
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. ... 
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven. 
I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives ... 
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I ke... 
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they... 
I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, a... 
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It... 
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... 
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... 
If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&... 
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well ... 
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ... 
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ... 
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don&... 
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... 
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... 
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably t... 
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... 
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ... 
People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving m... 
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you ... 
It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places a... 
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re... 
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acq... 
When I'm writing fiction, I read nonfiction or biographies. Now I'm watching very old movies... 
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that... 
I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been ... 
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented... 
I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine. 
I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding th... 
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something... 
I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what the... 
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because... 
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... 
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train... 
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've ... 
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. 
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement... 
I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good gam... 
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot ... 
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often sim... 
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. 
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow 
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves