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TED BELL I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d...
UMBERTO ECO When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing...
ADAM RAPP Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ...
EMILY GIFFIN When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share somethin...
ETGAR KERET When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I us...
DAN GILROY I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painti...
CHARLYNE YI
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r... TED DEKKER Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where... LOIS LOWRY
I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am... LENA HEADEY
I think it's important to update my fans on what I'm doing and where I'm going next and ... AUSTIN MAHONE When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book....
LINDA SUE PARK Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymor...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a...
DANA SPIOTTA
People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't ... IGGY AZALEA
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to... VICTORIA BECKHAM
I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something th... LAURA MVULA
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... ORHAN PAMUK Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever...
NIGEL KENNEDY I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d...
DAVE ATTELL Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, wr...
LUDACRIS My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v...
COLMAN DOMINGO
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th... ADELE
I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &... KATHI APPELT The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than...
KACEY MUSGRAVES
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go... JOE SACCO I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, an...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY
An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to m... JOSS WHEDON As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I ...
ZAK ORTH While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit...
HAKAN NESSER
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing we... AARON SORKIN
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... WASHED OUT
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new... BILL MUMY
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... GAIL DEVERS
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm c... LEONARD NIMOY I woke up one day and wanted to change my look. And I was like, 'Okay, what are you going to do ...
CECE PENISTON I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's sayi...
MICHAEL HANEKE
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I... ELMORE LEONARD
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin... CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It'... MIRANDA HART
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just v... ERIC CLAPTON I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, &#...
HARI KUNZRU I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries...
B. D. WONG A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm r...
PATRICK ROY
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... VICTORIA AVEYARD I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time ...
LUKE WILSON
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stres... MICHELLE OBAMA I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm...
SPIKE JONZE I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I a...
CHELSEA CAIN
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... JUDITH JAMISON
Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in ... KEVIN HART For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say...
RONDA ROUSEY
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... SOPHIE KINSELLA I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, a...
CAMILLA BELLE
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me... ZACH GALIFIANAKIS I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going t...
SAM BRADFORD
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi...
TINK
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires... ROSALIA DE CASTRO
I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control i... ANTHONY BOURDAIN Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au...
ADAM PALLY I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else...
STEVE HUFFMAN
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing ou... ADAM SANDLER
I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my... CAMILA CABELLO If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what...
JAMES P. GORMAN Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is expl...
CAROLYN CHUTE I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ...
JESS WALTER You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a...
MAGGIE CAREY I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorte...
JACQUELINE WOODSON
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. LOUISE PENNY When I'm not dancing, I usually just like to keep it comfy. Even if I'm just going to dinner...
MADDIE ZIEGLER Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the lo...
AUTRE NE VEUT The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi...
BEN SCHOTT I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for ...
AL YANKOVIC
I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be her... 
Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day. 